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The Cobblestone Historic District is located along state highway NY 104 (Ridge Road) in Childs, New York, United States.It comprises three buildings that exemplify the cobblestone architecture developed to a high degree in the regions of upstate New York near Lake Ontario and exported to other areas with settlers.
The New York State Thruway has a rock cut at Batavia which clearly shows the fault and is a popular point for geology class field trips. [5] The fault, which runs from Attica, New York northward to Lake Ontario, is still active and periodically causes minor earthquakes in the area.
Shouldice Hospital (formerly Shouldice Hernia Centre) is a private hospital located in Markham, Ontario, Canada, at 7750 Bayview Avenue in the Thornhill district. [1] The hospital specializes in hernia care. Its location is the former estate of George McCullagh, a publisher who created The Globe and Mail newspaper in 1936. [2]
Paris Plains Church, Paris, Ontario, 1845, cobblestone architecture. Paris, Ontario is referred to as "the cobblestone capital of Canada" due to a significant number of cobblestone buildings. [9] This mode of construction was introduced to the community when Levi Boughton (d.1895), a New York mason, arrived in 1838.
The exterior walls are built primarily of small, red, oval, lake washed cobbles. Also on the property is a smokehouse built of both red, lake washed cobbles and irregular field cobbles. They are among the approximately 101 cobblestone buildings in Ontario County and 26 in the village and town of Phelps. [2]
The Potsdam Sandstone, more formally known as the Potsdam Group, is a geologic unit of mid-to-late Cambrian age found in Northern New York and northern Vermont and Quebec and Ontario. A well-cemented sandstone of nearly pure quartz, in the 19th century it was widely used in construction and in refractory linings for iron furnaces. [8]
Ottawa New Edinburgh Club: ... 20 Stone House Court: Barrhaven West: 1885: Patrick Waters: ... Shouldice Hotel: 62-66 York Street: Rideau-Vanier: 1846:
Ontario Heritage Square, officially known as Heritage Square Museum, is a museum in Ontario, New York in Wayne County, New York.It is located at the site of the Brick Church Corners, a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.