Structure name; AKA: Mendon Dist 2 School House-Firehouse; Mendon Cobblestone Academy, Mendon School House, Mendon Academy *. * Preferred name requested by Diane Ham, The Honeoye Falls - Town of Mendon Historical Society".
Building date: 1835
Original use: Schoolhouse
Corner structures:
Mortar application and content: Vertical, slight embellishment
Types and uses of stones: Medium-sized field cobbles
Types and choice of windows: Lintels gray cut stone, quoin-like sides
Structures with similar masonry details:
Masons who worked on building:
Unique features: Door with sandstone lintel and sides
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°59'48.52"N 77°30'16.81"W. Current owner of record, LOL Property Development, LLC as of the 2018 Tax Roll.
Town of Mendon and Monroe County Maps
Mendon Academy building at 16 Mendon Ionia Road is a Federal style cobblestone structure built about 1835. This school was started in 1836 by Rev. and Mrs. Marcenus Stone. In 1839 it was purchased by the District No. 2 School. It is constructed of medium-sized field cobbles and is one of 10 surviving cobblestone buildings in Mendon. The building was used as a school for about a century. It was acquired in 1950 by the Mendon Fire Department and remodeled for use as a fire hall. Since 2010, it now houses the Mendon Co-op. 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 seventeenth paragraph on page 16.
Subject #45, page 35, "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.
Mendon Cobblestone Academy, LandmarkHunter.com database of historic of notable landmarks in the United states past and present.
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National Register of Historic Places Registration
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Mendon School House
- Page 58, Types from the Mendon Area Page 234
¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
