Building date: 1841 per Roudabush, 1845 per Palmer
Original use: Schoolhouse
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Mortar application and content: Vertical heavy
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°01'36.58"N 77°26'18.05"W. Current owner of record, Historic High Point Retail LLC as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Victor and Ontario County Maps
236 High St. Ext., Victor, District 7 schoolhouse and out building, built in 1845. 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 fifteenth paragraph on page 17.
![]() Vic-4 Smith Schoolhouse.jpg ¹ Caption "Typical of the cobblestone schoolhouses found everywhere in the glacier-belabored region of western New York." | ![]() Vic-4 Smith 1.jpg ² Photography by Charles Hopkins 1930 | ![]() Vic-4 Smith 2.jpg ² Photography by Charles Hopkins 1930 | ![]() Vic-4 Smith 3.jpg ² Pease Collection 1940-41 |
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![]() Vic-4 Smith 4.jpg ² Rear of structure with outhouse in foreground and later stone addition in the background. | ![]() Vic-4 Smith 5.jpg ² Note that bell tower is in the yard to the right of the schoolhouse. | ![]() Vic-4 236 High St Ext 1.jpg ³ | ![]() Vic-4 236 High St Ext 2.jpg ³ |
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¹ "The New Country Life", June 1917; article "An Unknown Colonial Type", by Christina Livingston Rose, pp 67-69.
² Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
4 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.