Building date: 1839
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Mortar application and content: Vertical heavy
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Map views courtesy Google Maps View 1; View 2. Google Maps street level view is blocked by dense vegetation. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°03'33.90"N 77°34'55.18"W. Current owner of record, Rochester Institute of Technology as of the 2018 Tax Roll.
Town of Henrietta and Monroe County Maps
Near back steps on post hangs old fashioned dinner bell. White stone near the peak of the roof at the front of the house has a figure of a flying eagle carved on it with the word "Liberty" at the top. Under the eagle are small figures of an ox team and plow driven by a man followed by a taller man carrying the American flag. He is followed by a team of horses driven by a man riding a harrow. Below this is the name of A. Hanks - 1839. Historians Committee - Century Old. Houses o f Rochester and Vicinity - 1937-1938.
"The Cobblestone Houses of Upstate New York", compiled by Dorothy Wells Pease. Research done in collaboration with Hazel B. Jeffery, supplemented with material furnished by Carl F. Schmidt, 1941. Reference the twelfth paragraph on page 15 (Count including the continuation from page 14).
"The Cobblestone Houses of Western New York page 17 Figure 13" and "Page 20 Figure 20, by Richard "Dick" H. Backus (1922-2012), January 1947. A paper written for a class in the Department of Art, Dartmouth College. A copy of the original paper was returned to Mr. Backus June 12, 1963 by Hugh Morrison of the Art Department. The paper was forwarded on March 16, 2026 to the Cobblestone Museum by Carol and Steve Mackintosh who had received it from an unnamed neighbor who was downsizing. The existence and location of the original paper is unknown.
Mr. Lovejoy purchased it in 1919 for George Decker, then from Mrs. Ella Sweeney, widowed of John, who purchased it in 1868 from Mandana Hanks, related to A. Hanks to whom property was deeded in 1832 by Samuel S. Davis and wife. 1818 - deed of property recorded in name of Ansel Hanks, 50 acres for sum of $362.00. Eleanor Crane Kalsbeck, Henrietta Town Historian, source Rundel Library, May 1961
"Liberty Hill," 2205 Lehigh Station Road, Henrietta, built in 1839 by Liberty Ansel Hanks. Richard Palmer blog.
Realtor advertisement Brighten-Pittsford Post January 1977.
The Roudabush Study states the street address to be 2205 Lehigh Station Rd.; however, the current address is 2201 Lehigh Station Rd.
The structure is currently the residence of the President of the Rochester Institute of Technology, and provides conference and meeting facilities.
Added to the Town of Henrietta Historic Sites on 12/16/1981.
Liberty Hill homestead at RIT dates back to 1839, By Emily Morry, Democrat & Chronicle November 26, 2016.
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Hanks - Lovejoy House
- Pages 52 - 53
¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
