Building date: Circa 1847-48
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°58'09.90"N 76°46'30.28"W. Current owner of record, Lando as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Tyre and Seneca County Maps
Editor's Note: The Roudabush Survey May 1979 states the address as 1423 Mays Point Rd., whereas an address of 1175 Old School House Road is stated by Walter Gable, Seneca County Historian 6/6/2006; however, the Town of Tyre Assessor, Philip Griswold has verified on 9/30/2019 the address as 1145 Old School House Road. The street signs at the far ends of this short road both have Old School House Road signs. The National Register of Historic Places application 9/20/2009 states 1145 Mays Point Road. Google Maps lists the road as Mays Point Rd. The structure is at the SE corner of Lay Road and Old Schoolhouse Rd. (Mays Point Rd.).
The Lay house 1175 Old School House Road, town of Tyre, was built by Hiram Lay, circa 1847-48. There was once a cobblestone carriage house (photos below) across the road to the north. It was demolished when the Montezuma Wildlife Refuge acquired the property. The cupola from the wood barn was re-installed on the roof of the house. The porch was added later. There is a brick smokehouse on the rear slope. The house has an original bake oven built into an inside chimney wall. Richard Palmer blog.
Permanent File of Cobblestone Structures states that the property of Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Lay had always been in the family until Mr. Rogers purchased the property. The historical context of the Lay family and property can be found in Section B, page 4 of the Hiram Lay Carriage House documentation in the National Archives Catalog. "The Portrait and Biographical Record of Seneca and Schuyler Counties New York", pages 484 and 485, Chapman Publishing Company 1895, provides a details biography for Hiram M. Lay.
"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 31.
"Cobblestone home shining example", by Betty Auten, The Geneva Times, Area News, 10/6/1970.
Cobblestone Buildings in Seneca County, photographs and text by Walter Gable, Seneca County Historian, revised 10/25/2019.
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National Register of Historic Places Registration
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Lay - Rogers House and Barn
- Page 152
- "Cobblestone Landmarks of New York State", 1978, by Olaf William Shelgren, Jr., Cary Lattin, and Robert W. Frasch, Photographs by Gerda Peterich: Name reference, Lay House
- Page 134
- "The Era of Cobblestone Architecture", unpublished manuscript 1972. To access the manuscript content about this structure, see 119,120. Seneca County, Lay-Rogers House.
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¹ Engravings of Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Lay and their residence. "History of Seneca Co., New York", Philadelphia: Everts, Ensign & Everts, 1876, p. 128.
² Photography courtesy Robert W. Frasch.
³ Image courtesy Library of Congress.
4 Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
5 Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
6 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
