Building date: 1840
Original use: Schoolhouse
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Mortar application and content: Vertical, very heavy, bold
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°58'04.72"N 77°37'07.67"W. Current owner of record, Zimmermann as of the 2018 Tax Roll.
Town of Mendon and Monroe County Maps
Built in 1840, the cobblestone school on Rush-Lima Road at Sibleyville was used as a school until 1945. It then became the private residence of the Roy Hetzler family and was later sold to James Millikens. 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 eleventh paragraph on page 16.
Subject #44, page 34, "Survey of Cobblestone Masonry in the Rush - Mendon Area", by Richard Burton Wood (1934-1992), May 18, 1955. Essay submitted to Dr. Hersey, Art 146, Class of 1956 University of Rochester.
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Mendon District # 12 School
- Pages 57 - 58
¹ Old photo of Mendon District 12 school house. Courtesy of Diane Ham, Mendon Town Historian.
² Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
4 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
