{"nrhp_refnum":"94000172","name":"Wallington Cobblestone Schoolhouse District No. 8","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"6135 N. Geneva Rd., Hamlet of Wallington","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sodus","county":"Wayne County","state":"NY","lat":43.22322916300004,"lon":-77.01308545699999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-03-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story, one-room cobblestone schoolhouse built about 1834 on North Geneva Road in the hamlet of Wallington, town of Sodus, Wayne County, New York. It sits on a small lot with a hand pump and two later outbuildings.","why_significant":"It is a representative example of Early Period cobblestone construction in western New York, with field cobbles laid in rows, limestone quoins and wood lintels. It is also tied to the history of rural education in Wayne County, serving District #8 until 1950. It is a rare, relatively unaltered one-room schoolhouse.","narrative":"Built around 1834 on land donated by early settler Daniel Arms, this one-room schoolhouse stands at the northern edge of Wallington, a crossroads hamlet in Sodus, Wayne County. Its walls are made of multicolored field cobbles laid in horizontal rows, with limestone quoins at the corners, wood lintels and sills, and a louvered bell tower on the gable roof. Inside, a single large classroom holds a wood stove, children's desks and benches, and a blackboard. The building served School District #8 until 1950, when a centralized district formed in Sodus. A community association bought it in 1951, and it now operates as a museum and demonstration classroom. It was listed because it represents the early cobblestone building method, common in Wayne County, and because it is a remarkably intact rural schoolhouse. A rear wall was rebuilt in the 1980s, and some masonry has deteriorated, but the interior has changed little since classes ended.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1834","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early Republic: Federal (cobblestone construction)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Now a museum and community building, also made available to area teachers as a demonstration classroom. Cobblestone masonry has been partly compromised by deterioration and some unsympathetic repairs.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:49.956082-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/94000172.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000172/ed031226a9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000172/ed031226a9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Lvklock","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wallington_Cobblestone_Schoolhouse_District_No._8_212.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Lvklock</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wallington_Cobblestone_Schoolhouse_District_No._8_212.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315451","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallington_Cobblestone_Schoolhouse_District_No._8","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7963110"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/wayne-county/wallington-cobblestone-schoolhouse-district-no-8-94000172/"}