Cobblestone Buildings During a mere 35-year span in the middle of the 19th century, approximately 700 cobblestone structures were erected within a 65-mile radius of Rochester, New York, and nowhere else. Cobblestone Bed & Breakfasts Captain Throop House Bed and Breakfast Pultneyville Maxwell Creek Inn Bed and Breakfast Sodus Peppermint Cottage and Jackson Schoolhouse Bed and Breakfast Lyons Maxwell Creek Inn Bed and Breakfast (on Cobblestone Quest Tour #12) 7563 Lake Road, Sodus, New York 14551 - (315) 483-2222 Innkeepers Pat & Belinda McElroy via Website or Built in 1846 by William Swales for his daughter Elizabeth as a wedding gift, this historic cobblestone house was once on the Underground Railroad.
Schooners sailed into Maxwell Bay to trade wheat for the flour that was made at the gristmill that still stands on the property since 1794. The Inn sits on six acres of peace and tranquil beauty surrounded by a woodland wildlife preserve and apple orchards on the shores of Lake Ontario, along the Seaway Trail. See website for more details.
Peppermint Cottage and Jackson Schoolhouse Bed and Breakfast (on Cobblestone Quest Tour #15) 336 Pleasant Valley Road, Lyons, New York 14489 - (315) 946-4811 , (888) 997-1998 Innkeepers Mark & Diane DeCracker via Website or Nestled in a peaceful valley between the Finger Lakes and Lake Ontario, and right in the heart of the Erie Canal district, is the historical Jackson School House B&B and the Peppermint Cottage Bed and Breakfast. The Jackson School cobblestone house (circa 1831) was started by Cyrus Jackson, a relative of President Andrew Jackson.
The historical cobblestone Jackson School served as a school until 1947. On the premises of the Jackson School House is our Finger Lakes B&B, which served as Judson Rice’s Colonial tin lighting workshop. Notes This page was based on "Cobblestone Quest – Road Tours of New York’s Historic Buildings", a guidebook with 17 self-guided driving or bicycle tours of regional cobblestone buildings. See the Footprint Press page for more information and links.
This article needs some reorganization and additions. Next step: move the B&B's to separate pages.