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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°02'58.82"N 77°16'40.80"W. Current owner of record, Stockwell as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Macedon and Wayne County Maps
"The Cobblestone Houses of Upstate New York", compiled by Dorothy Wells Pease. Research done in collaboration with Hazed B. Jeffery, supplemented with material furnished by Carl F. Schmidt, 1941. Reference the third paragraphs on pages 25 and 26.
Karen Crandall 12/20/2011 email with Gene Bavis, Walworth Town Historian. Per Walworth Historian, Gene Bavis, "I vaguely remember Burt Whipple because he was an amateur musician (banjo), I think that use to come to "jams" in my Dad's barber shop, but I never knew where he lived." Then in an email a couple minutes later Gene writes: "I just got off the phone with a guy who is older than I and remembers playing music with Burt. He says there is a cobblestone house (former schoolhouse) on the west side of Co. Rt. 28 about a mile south of Rt. 31. After he mentioned that, I remember the house, too. I haven't driven past it recently, so my memory of it is sketchy. He says he remembers taking his Dad over there to play music one time, so that is probably the house that Burt owned."
This schoolhouse was commonly referred to as "Stop 28". I believe it was so named for the RR stop there. Karen Crandall 7/3/2021 email.
Dorothy Wells Pease in her 1940 paper states "Small Alderman Rd school with stones nearly covered with the mortar". Editor's Note: This gives a time frame suggesting that stones had been covered by that time and it had not yet been converted to a residence.
This building is now a private residence. The cobblestones have been stuccoed over. Wayne County Historic Sites Project
Wayne Historians Organization (WHO), Historic Sites Inventory Cobblestone house
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Schoolhouse House
- Pages 94 - 95
Editor's Note: The exact location and status of this structure can not be determined from the address information provided by Carl Schmidt in his book "Cobblestone Masonry". An 1859 Ontario County Map shows a Schoolhouse No. 11 on the west side of Alderman Road a short distance north of Fox Road, Town of Farmington, Ontario County. See map image. The current 271 Alderman Road address stated by Schmidt however is displayed by Google Maps further north on the east side of Alderman Road almost equidistant between Fox and Maxwell Roads. No evidence of a cobblestone structure can be seen with either Google Maps street level or satellite views. However, there is this plastered over (stucco) cobblestone schoolhouse, at 1113 Alderman Rd.., Town of Macedon, Wayne County, on the west side of Alderman Rd. about 1.6 miles north of the 271 Alderman Rd., Farmington address. This is believed to be the schoolhouse referred to by Carl Schmidt.
 district_1_school.jpg ¹ |  Mac-10 Macedon District 1 Schoolhouse 1.jpg ² 1970 |  1113 Alderman Rd, converted SH.jpg ³ |
¹ Photograph courtesy Walworth and Macedon Historical Societies.
² Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Karen Crandall.
