Building date: ca. 1834
Original use: Schoolhouse
Corner structures: Gray limestone and red sandstone. Variable
Mortar application and content: Vertical heavy. Vertical pyramids
Types and uses of stones:
Types and choice of windows: Lentils wood
Structures with similar masonry details:
Masons who worked on building:
Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°13'23.67"N 77°00'45.94"W. Current owner of record, Wallington Community Center Association, Inc as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Sodus and Wayne County Maps
When examining homes, it is sometimes difficult to determine where the work stopped, but it seemed logical that the mason would build one quoin height at a time. At Sod-19 DePoint, it was first noticed that there was a crack between stones horizontally at the bottom of a quoin. This finding suggested that a study be made to test the idea that such a crack represented an interruption in building. The schoolhouse at Sod-16 proved to be an excellent subject, since the front of the building was in the best light at the time of our visit, and observation, both visual and photographic, was uninterrupted by plantings.
A crack was found at the bottom of a quoin on the front wall at the southeast corner of the school. Five overlapping photographs [Sod_16_11.jpg through Sod_16_15.jpg below] were taken from the edge of the quoin, following the crack toward the door. These photos are marked with an arrow to indicate the crack. The photographs were taken so that a stone on the right edge of the picture can be found on the left edge of the next photo.
It is our opinion that stones and mortar below the crack were laid at one time, and after an appropriate time, the next series of rows was laid. Since the first mortar had hardened in the intervening time, the upper mortar did not make a complete fusion with the lower, and thus the crack is visible in the vertical mortar. Roudabush Survey page 9
"Cobblestone Structures of Wayne County" School House excerpt, 1955, Verlyn Edward Klahn, pages 285 and 286. Essay submitted for Hoffman Foundation, Wayne County History Scholarship, awarded 1955. Reprint permission granted by Wayne County Historian.
Cobblestone schoolhouse, 6135 Lake Road, Wallington was placed is on the National Register in 1994. 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 sixteenth paragraph on page 38.
Wayne Historians Organization (WHO), Historic Sites Inventory Sodus District 8 Cobblestone Schoolhouse and Historic Plaque aka Wallington Schoolhouse
Sodus District Schoolhouses with Teacher's names and dates, courtesy NYGEN Town of Sodus Teachers web page. Editor's Note: The dated list provided includes all school structures built for the Town of Sodus Districts. Unfortunately, the exact dates when this schoolhouse was used for classes may not be included in the documentation provided in the Cobblestone Info Base or other linked sources.
The Cobblestone Society & Museum Tours:
Cobblestone School Sodus Cobblestone Homes Tour, Stop #1 09/13/1986
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National Register of Historic Places Registration
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Schoolhouse
- Pages 190 - 191
¹ Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
² Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
4 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
