Building date: 1843
Original use: Schoolhouse
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Mortar application and content: Vertical no embellishment. Vertical pyramids - bottom of vertical expanded into a pyramid.
Types and uses of stones: Elongated horizontally field stones
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Map views courtesy Google Maps street level view. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°52'36.52"N 77°38'43.23"W. Current owner of record, Stevenson as of date (YMD) 190416.
Town of Lima and Livingston County Maps
District school house No. 6 at 6679 Jenks Road, Lima, was built in 1843 of field stones.
This cobblestone school was built on land deeded to the district by Alfred and Rachel Warner in May, 1843. It was used as a school for more than a century. By 1940 there was a concern expressed if it should continue in operation as attendance had dwindled considerably. It was voted to close the school in 1946 and send the children to Lima. The building was sold in 1953 and converted into a residence in 1967.Richard Palmer blog.
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¹ Photography courtesy John Vrooman, from the archives of the Cobblestone Museum. The photo might have been taken in 1947 for a NYS Department of Education project that documented historic structures and sites as selected by local historians. Holly Watson, Deputy Livingston County Historian, email 11/30/2020
² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.