Dean -Root house, 3466 Route 5, Caledonia. Built 1837.
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1451 River Road, Caledonia
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Old store, 2682 Route 26, York
3678 Main St., Greigsville
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Gilmore Mansion at Piffard
By Richard Palmer
The James Gilmore House at 3016 River Road, Piffard, was built about 1840. Over the years it has mistakenly referred to as the Judge Moses Hayden House. But this is not possible as Hayden died Feb. 14, 1828. After his death the property was sold to Gilmore who later built the house.
Hayden was First Judge of Livingston County. It is said the stones for the house were collected from along nearby Salt Creek and were carefully graded for uniformity by passing them through a beetle ring for sizing. The Abbey acquired the property in the 1950s from the Gilmore family.
It was used as a priests' retreat house for several years. It has been remodeled and is used as a family guest house or group retreats. It represents both Egyptian and neo-Classical architecture. The stately Tudor-style chimneys it once had have been removed. The dormers on the roof are recent additions. It is now known as Bethany House.
Hayden was First Judge of Livingston County. It is said the stones for the house were collected from along nearby Salt Creek and were carefully graded for uniformity by passing them through a beetle ring for sizing. The Abbey acquired the property in the 1950s from the Gilmore family.
It was used as a priests' retreat house for several years. It has been remodeled and is used as a family guest house or group retreats. It represents both Egyptian and neo-Classical architecture. The stately Tudor-style chimneys it once had have been removed. The dormers on the roof are recent additions. It is now known as Bethany House.
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Smoke house at rear of house where "piping" method of cobblestone construction was employed.
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Wadsworth house at 4907 West River Road, (Route 256), Geneseo, built in 1849.
The Coverdale House at 2049 Coverdale Road, Leicester, was completed in 1837. It has been restored. It is of Greek Revival architecture. It has been completely restored and refinished with new hardwood floors, thermal pane windows, new porches, etc. The house includes a 1-1/2-story kitchen wing and a one-story cobblestone and frame carriage shed. It was placed on the National Register in 2005. A "widow's walk" was reconstructed atop the main portion of the house in 2010.
Rear addition of the house.
Historical marker at front of the house.
This house at 6857 Heath-Markham Road, Lima, was built in 1832. It was placed on the National Register in in 1989 and includes several 19th and early 20th century out buildings. It is a typical three-bay, vernacular Greek Revival structure with a one and half-story rear wing. Its two feet think walls are fashioned of field stones set with mortar in the cobblestone building tradition. It is nearly identical to the Morgan house on Routes 5 and 20 west of the village of Lima. It also has a semi-elliptical arch over the front doorway. The Markham family occupied it for 50 years. It is historically significant for its association with three prominent families of Lima. The Markham occupied it for nearly 50 years. Later it was owned by the Peck family and Edward F. Dibble of the Dibble Seed Co. The cheap-looking front porch is a modern addition and not in keeping with the architecture.
5084 East Lake Road, Town of Livonia
Ganoung farmhouse at 2798 Poplar Hill Road, Lima, was built of field stones in the 1830s. It is of Greek Revival style and includes a 19th-century carriage barn. It was placed on the National Register in 1989.
6054 Morris Road, Groveland
This house at 7192 Route 5 and 20 in the village of Lima was built in 1836. For a time it was used as a school house.
The Barnard House
By Richard Palmer
Located on West Main Street in the village of Lima, this cobblestone residence was built in 1836 for the Rev. John Barnard, then pastor of the Lima Presbyterian Church. The house combines elements of Federal and Greek Revival, along with late 19th century Queen Anne style additions.
The semi-elliptical wooden louvered fan with cut stone surround in the front gable end is typical of of the Federal style of architecture, waning in popularity in the mid-1830s when then house was built, the entrance with fluted pilasters, corner blocks and there part top the home's gable end to the street orientation, and the use of rectangular cut stone lintels are all characteristic of the Greek Revival architectural style, growing in popularity in the 1830s, when the wrap around porch with spindled frieze and the shingles, two-story wing are representative of the Queen Anne style, in vogue in Lima in the 1880s and 1890s.
The home is also architecturally significant as an example of the cobblestone technology, especially popular in the Lake Ontario Plain and Finger Lakes Region of New York State from 1825 to 1860s. The cobblestones in the front wall are primarily red sandstone fieldstone's, but also include scattered round and oval lake-washed stones. Corner quoins are squared sandstones, as are the four-inch thick window sills and nine-inch high lintels.
The house is significant historically for its association with Rev. Barnard. Born in Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, he spent most of his youth in Rome, N.Y. Barnard graduated from Union College in 1813 and then went to Princeton Theological Seminary. He was first licensed to preach by the Oneida Association of the Congregational Church in 1816. After spending two years in missionary work in the Rome area as his father was in ill health, he came to Lima in 1818 to preach five sermons, although he was obligation to a church in Waterloo.
When he heard a friend wished to go to the Waterloo church instead, he chose to remain in Lima. In 1819, Rev. Barnard was ordained and installed as pastor of the Charleston Congregational Society (later to become the Lima Presbyterian Church). He served as pastor of the church for 38 years and as clerk of the Ontario Presbytery for 50 years.
He was so well liked he was known to his fellow ministers as "John the Beloved." Although Reverend Barnard purchased this property from Ashel Warner, a record of his life prepared by Joseph Page states he built his "pleasant cobblestone in 1836." After Barnard's death in 1872, the family continued to live in the home until 1879. In 1902, the house was purchased by Schuyler Gillette and remained in the Gillette family until 1967.
Schuyler Gillette was an inventor and entrepreneur who founded the Gillette Bottling Works, a manufacturer of soft drinks. His products were shipped within a large radius of Lima and his customers even included hotels and restaurants in New York City. Gillette also invented a bottle washing machine which was distributed by the Bailey Engine Company in the 1880s. Gillette's wife, Minnie Markham Gillette, daughter of Augustus Markham, was owner of the cobblestone Markham house.
This home at 6870 Route 5 and 20, Lima, the Morgan House was built in 1832 for Jasper Marvin. It was placed on the National Register in 1989. Decorative arch fan is over front door entrance. In 1852 it was the David Olney residence. It was sold to William Cook in 1855. For many years it was owned by the pioneer Morgan family and served as a tenant house.
According to its date stone, the Morgan house was built in 1832.It is located on Routes 5 and 20 west of the village of Lima With its gable roof and simple returns, end chimney, and center entrance capped with a semi-elliptical stone arch with keystone and wooden fan, the house is a representative of the vernacular Greek Revival architectural style.
Before extension of the rear wing to two stories, the design of the Morgan house is almost identical to that of the cobblestone Markham house. It is noteworthy that only in these two houses are among the few that have the semi-elliptical arch used as an element of doorway design.
There is some discrepancy as to the name of the original owner. The earliest known map of Lima, published in 1852, denotes a structure in the location of the home as belonging to David Olney. Further search of land records shows this parcel was owned by Jasper Marvin in 1832, who was probably the first owner. Census records do not show that the Olney property contained the cobblestone house. Olney sold his property to William Cook in 1855 for $1,500. Cook's listing in the 1855 census indicates this $1, 500 worth of real estate contained a wood rather than a cobblestone dwelling.
It is more likely that the cobblestone house was erected on the 114 acres to the east of the land owned by Olney and Cook; land that was part of the property owned by John Morgan, who came to Lima in the 1790s from Springfield, Massachusetts and built the c.l815 Federal brick home located across the road .15 miles to the east. The cobblestone Morgan House could have been built by Morgan as a tenant house or home for one of his sons, Shepard, John, Ir. or David B., all of whom inherited his estate as tenants in common upon John's in 1846. Why this home would not have appeared on the l852mapt is unknown.
The Morgans were early Lima settlers who came to the area in the 1790s. John Morgan's father, Revolutionary war soldier Captain John Morgan, is known to have built a log house on the north side of
the State Road before 1791. In 1815, John Morgan built his brick house adjacent to the log structure. It was one of the well-known taverns on the Ontario and Genesee Turnpike, complete with a ballroom. Other Morgans settled the surrounding area prior to 1795, including Elijah, Colonel David, and David's cousin, Abner, a Brimfield, Massachusetts lawyer and Major in the Revolution who purchased about 8000 acres from Abner Mighells in 1791. John Morgan’s son, Shepard P. Morgan, served Lima as supervisor from 1861-1865.
The Morgan house is also significant for its association with Lima'agriculture. Shepard P. Morgan became the principal owner of the property by 1850 and farmed about l90 acres. Census records
indicate that by 1875, he had retired and was living in the cobblestone home while his son David B. Morgan, educated at GWS and considered a "thriving farmer", lived in the brick house. David’s daughter, Melissa, carried on the family farming operation (listed as dairying in the 1917 Farm Directory for Monroe and Livingston counties) until she sold the entire farm complex including the cobblestone and brick homes to Samuel Hanna in 1918.
The home's role as a tenant house to the brick house continued into the twentieth century, for in 1937 owner Herbert Knop advertised the Morgan house for rent thusly: "stone tenant house - tenant may work for me to pay rent." 
This cobblestone school was built on land deeded to the district by Alfred and Rachel Warner in May, 1843. It was used as a school for more than a century. By 1940 there was a concern expressed if it should continue in operation as attendance had dwindled considerably. It was voted to close the school in1946 and send the children to Lima. The building was sold in 1953 and converted into a residence in 1967.
The Livingston County Historical Society Museum at 30 Center St., Geneseo, was built as School District No. 5 in 1838 on land donated by the Wadsworth family. It has been a museum since 1932 when the school moved to a new facility. It is built in the shape of a Greek Cross. It is within the Geneseo National Historic Landmark District.
House on Hartford Estate off Route 39, Geneseo
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These two houses at Nunda may have been constructed by the same builder. They both have limestone courses above the cellar windows which is an uncommon feature. The sizes and types cobbles and quarried stone are similar. The house in Oakland appears to have been built earlier, but the mansard roof is much later. Neither appear to have their original windows. The house in Oakland has smaller windows.
This house at 45 East St., Nunda, was built for Quartus Barron about 1840. He was said to have been a contractor and helped build the Genesee Valley Canal.
9269 Fitch St., Oakland
The Bethnel Payne house at 5813 Federal Road, Conesus, was completed in 1838. It was purchased in 1845 by George F. Coe, a widely respected farmer who served as town supervisor for six years. The property remained in the Coe family until 1940 when it was purchased by George Fiedler, an executive of Rochester Gas & Electric Co., who restored it. It was placed on the National Register in 2006.
District No. 13 school house at 4696 Federal Road, south of Livonia.
Livonia Gazette
November 23, 1930
A Landmark That’s Gone
The old cobblestone blacksmith shop at Livonia Center is said to have been built in the 1830s by William Thurston. From left are Martin Lindsley (in buggy), who lived on the late John Spoor farm; John DeWeyel, standing by horse’s head; Norman Shafer in front of door); Arthur Patchin (in doorway), lived where the Ivan Costello family resides; “Nig” Rowland in front of wheel). Photo courtesy of Livingston County Historian
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