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Evidence of the use of cobblestones in building has been found in the ruins of Hierakonpolis in Egypt. Houses were built of mud brick set on cobblestone foundations. Cobblestone architecture may have been used on a monumental scale to erect public administrative centers or palaces. Those structures have since collapsed into mounds of stone. [1]
This is a list of cobblestone buildings, mostly houses and mostly but not all in the United States, that are notable and that reflect cobblestone architecture. Cobblestone architecture had some popularity for substantial homes and other buildings for a period, but is limited in scope of employment. St. Alban's Church, Copenhagen
Cobblestone House (Bath, New York) Cobblestone House (Cazenovia, New York) Cobblestone House (Eau Claire, Wisconsin) Cobblestone Inn; Cobblestone Manor; Cobblestone Railroad Pumphouse; Cole Cobblestone Farmhouse; Colorado National Guard Armory; Coolidge Stores Building; Coverdale Cobblestone House; William Covert Cobblestone Farmhouse; Isaac ...
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.
Cobblestone is a natural building material based on cobble-sized stones, and is used for pavement roads, streets, and buildings. Setts , also called Belgian blocks, are often referred to as "cobbles", [ 1 ] although a sett is distinct from a cobblestone by being quarried and shaped into a regular form, while cobblestones are naturally occurring ...
4-story commercial building built in 1855 with Italianate styling, with five stores at street level and offices and an auditorium above. Renovated in 1899 under the direction of Arthur Peabody, adding the Queen Anne-styled round corner towers and touted as Janesville's "first modern office building." 74: LaPrairie Grange Hall No. 79
Erected by an itinerant building contractor, A. F. Martin, the house is a merging of that tendency in folk architecture to treat cobblestone as a complete wall covering, with holdovers of textural exuberance from the Queen Anne Style, and with the fashion of giving emphasis to natural materials such as cobblestone in the California Bungalow Style.
Bates Cobblestone Farmhouse is a historic home located at Middlesex in Yates County, New York. The farmhouse was built about 1836 and is a one-and-a-half-story, five bay cobblestone building with a one-and-a-half-story frame rear wing. The house is built of relatively rough and irregularly shaped, sized and colored field cobbles.