Building date: 1834
Original use: Quaker Meeting House
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Mortar application and content: Vertical heavy
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Types and choice of windows: Lintels gray cut stone
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is GIS Database and Google Earth confirmed; 43°00'18.50"N 77°44'59.67"W. Current owner of record, Phillips as of 2018 Tax Roll.
Town of Wheatland and Monroe County Maps
History as of 1938
1834-1854 Quaker meeting house built and used by orthodox quakers
1854-1873 used by Hicksites [See section "Hicksite-Orthodox split"]
1873-1937 residence
1938-? used as Grange Hall
"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. Reference the fifth paragraph on page 12.
Quaker Meeting House, 409 Quaker Road, Scottsville, Town of Wheatland, built 1834. Richard Palmer blog.
Story of the Quaker Meeting House, by Carl F. Schmidt
In 1828 Elias Hicks came to Wheatland preaching a new doctrine to the Quakers. The people were divided, some accepting and others rejecting his precepts. It is said that they continued to hold their meetings in the frame meeting house on the south side of Quaker Road for several years, one group meeting in the morning and the other in the afternoon, quarreling all the time.
A committee appointed in 1832 by the Orthodox group reported that they had obtained estimates for building a stone church thirty by forty feet, fourteen feet high, and to cost about $500, exclusive of the teamwork for drawing the stone, and providing the mortar. The following year the same group acquired from Darius Shadbolt, about one-half acre of land on the hill east of their frame meeting house. In 1834 they built the cobblestone building. It is a rectangular shaped plan with the narrow end facing Quaker Road. Originally a porch extended along the east side of the building on which the occupants from carriages could alight. There were two entrances into the meeting house from the porch, one for women and one for men.
The large room was divided by a low lattice partition extending through the center, on one side of which were seated the women, and on the other the men. The Quakers held their last meeting in the building in 1873, and it was used for residential purposes until 1937. In 1938 it was acquired by the Genesee Grange. Richard Palmer blog.
Historical Marker states: Quaker meeting house. Built and used by orthodox Quakers 1834-1854. By Hicksites 1854-1873
"Wheatland's Quaker Colony"". Attribution not provided.
"The Separation of the Friends"", It Happened Here in 1828, Arch Merrill's History, by Arch Merrill, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, January 1962. Editor's Note:Exact publish date is unknown.
"The Geological Origin of Cobblestone Architecture", by Gerda Peterich. Specific reference to this structure on page 12, and 21.
"Cobblestone Architecture in the Rochester Area", by Gerda Peterich, 1953. Reference Quaker Meeting House and figure 10. Editor's Note: This digitized version of the original typescript manuscript is reformatted for digital display, edited for errors, and includes blue tinted highlighted links to improve access within the document, to the appropriate structure pages in the Cobblestone Info Base, or to external resources on the internet. This document is one of two known typescript drafts, likely a thesis or essay bound as a book and apparently never published. One is available in the Cobblestone Museum Resource Center, the other in the University of Rochester Art and Music Library. A companion or precursor typed paper of the same title exists, perhaps used for a talk and/or photographic display of cobblestone structures.
"Some of the Older Houses and Buildings in and Near Scottsville N.Y.", page 3 of a paper by Carl F Schmidt. Date not provided.
The Cobblestone Society & Museum Tours:
Walker House 9th Annual 06/07/1969, 11th Annual 06/12/1971
- "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, Quaker Meeting House
- Page 75 - 76
- "Cobblestone Landmarks of New York State", 1978, by Olaf William Shelgren, Jr., Cary Lattin, and Robert W. Frasch, Photographs by Gerda Peterich: Name reference, Quaker Meeting House
- Pages 82 - 83
- "The Era of Cobblestone Architecture", unpublished manuscript 1972. To access the manuscript content about this structure, see 35, 36. Monroe County, Quaker Meeting House.
 Quaker meeting house, Wheaton, Monroe County.jpg ¹ Old photo of the Quaker meeting house. |  Whe-5 Quaker Meeting House 3.jpg ² Pease Collection 1940-41 |  GP Monroe Wheatland Whe-5 2_1 N.jpg ³ |  GP Monroe Wheatland Whe-5 3_1 N.jpg ³ |
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¹ Courtesy Wheatland Town historian
² Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
4 Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
4 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
