Phe-2, Baptist Church, 40 Church St.

Documentation

Building date: 1845

Original use: Church

Corner structures: Tooled

Mortar application and content: Vertical heavy. Vertical pyramids

Types and uses of stones:

Types and choice of windows:

Structures with similar masonry details: Phe-4 Wehner, Far-6 Wright

Masons who worked on building:

Unique features:

Map Location

Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°57'17.88"N 77°03'30.90"W. Current owner of record, Phelps Baptist Church as of the 2019 Tax Roll.

Town of Phelps and Ontario County Maps

Comments, Additional Information, References

There is a street address discrepancy where the Roudabush Survey, internet sources, and the National Register of Historic Places list the address as 40 Church Street which may be the mailing address; however, the physical tax assessor address is 30 Church Street, and 40 Church Street would be in the next block south where the Town of Phelps Redfield Park is located.

Baptist Church of Vienna^*, 30 Church St., Phelps, was built in 1845. It is Greek Revival with Gothic columns. Front was built with small red sandstone, water-rounded cobbles set at an angle. The side walls are multi-colored cobbles while the rear consists of field cobbles. Richard Palmer blog.

^* The village of Phelps was once called Vienna.

"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 first paragraph on page 19.

Cobblestone Church postcard. Received for file spring of 1984.

Phelps Baptist Church, courtesy the Tom The Backroads Traveller blog.

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The Cobblestone Society & Museum Tours:

First Baptist Church 15th Annual 06/07/1975

"Geology and the Development of Upstate New York's Distinctive Cobblestone Architecture", D. Brooks McKinney Ph.D, Emeritus Professor of Geoscience, Department of Geoscience, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY: Name reference, Barnes House

Page 93

National Register of Historic Places Registration This property is listed on the State and National Registers of Historic Places. Asset Detail National Register of Historic Places 5/22/1992. National Register of Historic Places Registration Form is available providing quite detailed information about the cobblestone structure. First Baptist Church of Phelps Wikipedia article.

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"Cobblestone Architecture of Upstate New York", by Gerda Peterich, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol 15, Issue 2 1956, Page 15. By permission of the University of California Press, "The requested material is in the public domain and you are welcome to use it."

"Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Baptist Chapel now the First Baptist Church

Page 102

"Cobblestone Landmarks of New York State", 1978, by Olaf William Shelgren, Jr., Cary Lattin, and Robert W. Frasch, Photographs by Gerda Peterich: Name reference, House

Page 112 - 113

"The Era of Cobblestone Architecture", unpublished manuscript 1972. To access the manuscript content about this structure, see 68. Ontario County, First Baptist Church.

Photographs

Phe-2 Baptist Church 1.jpg ¹ Pease Collection 1940-41	GP Ontario Phelps Phe-2 1-2 N.jpg ¹	Phe_2_1.jpg	Phe_2_2.jpg
Phe_2_3.jpg	Phe_2_4.jpg	Phe_2_5.jpg	Phe_2_6.jpg
Phe-2 Baptist Church 2.jpg ¹	Phe-2 40 Church St 1.jpg ³	Phe-2 40 Church St 2.jpg ³	Phe-2 40 Church St 3.jpg ³
Phe-2 40 Church St 4.jpg ³	Phe-2 40 Church St 5.jpg ³	Phe-2 Baptist Church 3.jpg ¹ 10/25/1998	Phe-2 Baptist Church 4.jpg ¹ 10/25/1998
Phe-2 Baptist Church 5.jpg ¹ 10/25/1998	Phelps Church.jpg 4	IMG_1087.jpg 4 2017	IMG_1088.jpg 4 2017
IMG_1089.jpg 4 2017, Detail of wall construction.	IMG_1091.jpg 4 2017	Date stone 2.jpg 4 2017, Date stone over front entrance.

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