Building date: 1859, demolished ≥1986.
Original use: Carriage House
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°58'11.19"N 76°46'31.21"W.
Town of Varick and Seneca County Maps
"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 second paragraph on page 31.
Hiram Lay Carriage House, Mays Point Road, Tyre, Seneca County, NY, Library of Congress. This website provides access not only to 26 photographs but additional documentation: "Photographs, Written Historical and Descriptive Data"; and a list of available photographs, many not included in the "Photographs" section below.
Cobblestone carriage barn on Lay farm was built in 1859 according to date stone. It was demolished in the mid 1980s. It clearly shows the stone rubble construction in back of the cobblestone veneer. Richard Palmer blog.
Hiram Lay Carriage House history sheet. From the personal research of cobblestone historian Karen Crandall.
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Lay - Rogers House and Barn
- Page 152
- "The Era of Cobblestone Architecture", unpublished manuscript 1972. To access the manuscript content about this structure, see 121. Seneca County, Lay Carriage House.
 Lay 2 from History of Seneca County, 1876.jpg ¹ |  Lay carriage house, June, 1964.jpg ² June 1964 |  GP Seneca Tyre Tyr-4a 1-1 N.jpg ³ |  GP Seneca Tyre Tyr-4a 2-1 N.jpg ³ |
 GP Seneca Tyre Tyr-4a 3-1 N.jpg ³ |  Sen_13a_1.jpg |  Sen_13a_2.jpg |  Sen_13a_3.jpg |
 lay 1.jpg 4 Lay House on Mays Point Road with Carriage House across Lay Rd. |  lay 3.jpg 4 |  lay 4.jpg 4 |  Lay Barn 2.png 4 |
¹ Engraving courtesy History of Seneca County, 1876.
² Image courtesy Richard Palmer blog. Attribution not provided.
³ Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
4 Photography courtesy Library of Congress. 1986
