Building date: 1838

Original use: Schoolhouse

Corner structures: Tooled

Mortar application and content: Vertical heavy. Horizontal rounded. Vertical pyramids.

Types and uses of stones: Small red

Types and choice of windows:

Structures with similar masonry details: Phe-22 VanderLyke, Sen-4 Tichenor, Sen-5 Banfield, Gor-1 LLoyd,

Masons who worked on building: James Robinson.

Unique features:

Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°59'03.68"N 77°08'01.28"W. Current owner of record, Nunn as of the 2019 Tax Roll.

Town of Manchester and Ontario County Maps

This house at 1061 County Road 27 in the hamlet of Gypsum was built in 1851 as a school and used until 1941. It is now a private residence. Recessed sidelights in doorway and triangular window in gable peak. Note the unusually large windows. 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 seventh paragraph on page 18.

Letter from Cecilia Jackson, 6/6/1954, page 2, paragraph 4 from the bottom, in reply to an inquiry by Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.

Editor's Note: Note the building date discrepancy between 1838 stated by Roudabush and 1851 stated by Palmer. A letter dated 2/5/1965 from the then cobblestone owner Mrs. Harriet Logie stated, "I have been told that it was built about 1838 and sold to the Town for a school house in 1853. It was a school until 1941 when it reverted back to a dwelling. I'd like to know when it was built and by whom but have had no luck so far. My deed goes back to 1853."

For Sale realty ad. Date unknown and attribution not provided.

"A Former School with Class", by Jean Giambrone with photographs by Jim Large, The Times-Union, Family Section C, 5/6/1969.

"Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Schoolhouse in Plainsville

Pages 98 - 99, Pages 246

"Geology and the Development of Upstate New York's Distinctive Cobblestone Architecture", pages 94-95, 96 (Stop 5), and 107 by D. Brooks McKinney Ph.D, Emeritus Professor of Geoscience, Department of Geoscience, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY.

Pages 94-95, Page 96, and Page 107

¹ Image courtesy Richard Palmer blog.
² Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
⁴ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
⁵ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.