Building date: 1847 [1848 stated by Roudabush Survey] - demolished in 1995.
Original use: Schoolhouse
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Mortar application and content: Vertical, no embellishment
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Town of Lockport and Niagara County Maps
District 12 Schoolhouse, northeast corner of Hamm and South Transit Roads, was built in 1847. It was demolished in 1995. Richard Palmer blog.
Cobblestone Centenary, Lockport Union Sun & Journal, Thursday, June 19, 1947 (editorial)
One of the last bulwarks of a vanishing era is in the limelight this week as pupils and former pupils of Cobblestone School, District 12, observe the 100th anniversary of the school's erection on South Transit Road.
The history of the old school is interesting, dating back many years before the present structure replaced a log cabin. That history includes a list of pioneer residents who made constructive marks in Lockport and Niagara County history.
This fact should be in the minds of the present pupils and descendants of those who learned the three R's at the little school when they stage their reunion tomorrow. May the hardy pioneer spirit of those departed students never die.
(The property was acquired by the Lockport Board of Education when the Town of Lockport School District 12 was annexed to the district school system. The board passed a resolution clearing the way to sell the school and the site. At an auction on Feb. 4, 1954, the school house was sold to Carl John of 74 Miller Place, Lockport, for $4,100. He said he would convert it into a residence.) Richard Palmer blog.
Cobblestone School Closes Its Doors, Lockport Union Sun & Journal, Friday, June 19, 1953
Representatives of three generations met at the Cobblestone schoolhouse Thursday event for a partly said, sentimental party. The schoolhouse, which has served 106 years of school children, is being closed for good. The present class probably will be the last to learn reading, writing and arithmetic with its walls.
The Cobblestone School is a landmark of the South Lockport area. It has been standing at its site on the Transit and Hamm Road since 1847. Its main distinguishing architectural mark has been the cobblestone fronting over its field stone exterior walls.
Thursday evening's party was to bid farewell to the school. Members of the newest class and their parent were there, as were scholars of man years ago. There were more than 60 present.
The school flag was lowered for a last time from the flagpole in the opening ceremonies. The formal closing of the school was symbolized later by the final locking of the door by District Trustee Adolph Moll and Mrs. James Conley, the present teacher.
Mrs. Elizabeth Fraser, a former scholar of the Cobblestone School, recalled its history. Reports on the past trustees and teachers were given by Mr. and Mrs. J. Ward Gregory.
Among the school's former students present were Miss Mary Robinson, who recalled that her father planted some of the trees in the school yard. Church D. Hall, a past student and trustee. whose memories of the Cobblestone School go back almost 70 years, and Clarence O. Lewis, Niagara County Historian.
As John Hall, master of ceremonies for the party, declared District 12 and the Cobblestone School will lose their century-long identity next autumn,, he added that in the name progress, its students will leave its one small room for the bigger and more modern schools of Lockport. But there are still many who will long remember the old school-house. Richard Palmer blog.
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, District School # 12
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¹ Photograph courtesy Niagara County Historical Society. Richard Palmer blog.
