Man-1, Manchester Union School District No. 10, 4060 Armington Rd. at Rt. #21

    Documentation

    Building date: 1846

    Original use: Schoolhouse

    Corner structures:

    Mortar application and content: Vertical, slight embellishment. Vertical pyramids.

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    Types and choice of windows: Lintels wood

    Structures with similar masonry details: Man-10 DeMay

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    Map Location

    Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°01'28.76"N 77°13'33.54"W. Current owner of record, Johncox as of the 2019 Tax Roll.

    Town of Manchester and Ontario County Maps

    Comments, Additional Information, References

    Armington schoolhouse, 4060 Armington Road at Route 21, northeast corner, in the town of Manchester, was built in 1846 according to the date stone. It is about four miles south of Palmyra. It was officially called Manchester Union School District No. 10. It is constructed of field stone. It is now a private residence. Richard Palmer blog.

    "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 sixth paragraph on page 25.


    "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Union School District No. 10
    Pages 100 - 101

    Photographs

    School District 10 1
    School District 10 1.jpg ¹ 1970. Taken through a car window, a reflection on the glass is superimposed upon the scene in the photograph. Photograph by Clyde Maffin, Ontario County Historian 1968-81.
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    School District 10 2
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    Man-1 4060 Armington Rd 2
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    Armington 1
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    Armington school house
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    ¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
    ² Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
    ³ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
    4 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.

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