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Le Roy House and Union Free School

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faculty and some students. The interior was altered extensively during this period. Signs of former partitions remain on the floors of the large bedrooms upstairs, and the irregular fenestration of the side elevations also reflects this subdivision of the interior space. During the 1880s the basement
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on the beaded fir ceiling. The beaded fir wainscoting, ceiling and floor are original but have been refinished; the door to the west hall has been removed. A sliding track door opens into the northeast room, currently used for storage. It has similar finishes, and a non-functional freight lift on the
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On the east (rear) are aligned windows, likewise six one-over-one on the first story and seven six-over-one on the second. The basement windows have been bricked in, as has the first-story window at the north end. The same pattern of six-over-one above one-over-one obtains on the north side, with the
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On the second floor, an identical arch spans the center hall south of the top of the stair. The decoration is more restrained, with simpler door and window surrounds and a ceiling medallion in the north section of the hall made of concentric circles. The same wide flooring planks are used everywhere
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A ten-foot-wide (3 m) cased opening separates the two eastern parlors. It has some of the same decorative motifs seen elsewhere on the first floor, such as reed molding and molded corner blocks, along with a molded inset panel at the center. From the front, a classical entablature and Tuscan columns
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From the rear of the stair hall on the first floor, another set of stairs leads down to the basement. It, too, has a center hall with six rooms. Three are open to the public and used for exhibits. In the southeast is a kitchen exhibit, in accordance with the bake oven in the open fireplace and open
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facing, added some time after the rear was built, further unified the house's appearance. After the company's decision to raise prices on some former Holland properties it had acquired met with widespread local resistance in some areas and violence against one of the company's other offices, Jacob
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Also on the east wall, a five-panel door opens into the closed stair along the east wall. A small storage room in the northwest corner is accessed from this space, divided from the main hall by a partially glazed wall on the south. The stair itself, located behind another paneled door at the north
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In the northeast parlor, the tripartite window is similarly recessed and flanked by pilasters. The fireplace mantel has an inset molded panel, classical entablature and engaged Tuscan columns. On either side are the six-over-six windows with reeded pilaster finish and molded corner blocks. Another
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The northwest room is currently the Le Roy Historical Society's office. Another six-panel wooden door with molded surround opens into it from the center hall. Its west wall fireplace has a wood mantel with reeded pilasters and molded square corner blocks. To its north a built-in bookcase spans the
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By 1904 it had been renamed Le Roy Union High School. Its student population soon outgrew this space, and seven years later the current Le Roy Junior/Senior High School was built across Main Street and Trigon Park. The old school's last year was 1911; it has not been used for educational purposes
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On either side of the center hall are two large rooms. The southwest room is decorated to approximate the building's original function as a land office. Wooden shutters for the 12-over-12 at the center of the tripartite window are on the adjacent interior walls. The doors and windows have reed
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mantel featuring classical entablature, inset molded panel and flanking pilasters. The molding on the door surround is the most detailed of any on the floor. It is currently used for storage. The bedroom across the hall has period furnishings and is used as an exhibit. Its mantel is similar.
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A storage space has been created from part of the southeast bedroom, which has a fireplace with plain wood mantel. It is currently used to exhibit a collection of period children's toys. The similar bedroom across the hall is now used as a research library. Its northeast corner has also been
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Citizens of the village, including Bartow, established the non-sectarian LeRoy Academic Institute in 1864 in a small building on Main Street. Within a year, it had outgrown that space, and the institute's trustees bought the Le Roy House from Cox. They built a two-story
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Upstairs, another west hallway with a small room in the southwest corner gives access to three rooms of nearly equal size. All have paneled doors leading to the hallway, and each other. The finishes on this level are all original; none have been
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The last change to the house was made in 1958. The rear porch was reconstructed since the original stone wall had deteriorated. It was replaced with a concrete wall. The windows were removed and the space beneath the porch entirely enclosed.
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At the south end of the west elevation is the current main entrance. It has a porch with a concrete deck, metal staircase and guiderails. Its roof is done in beaded wood paneling similar to that once used inside the school. The surrounding
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flank the six-light sidelights aside the main entrance, topped by another four-light transom. The six-panel wooden door opens into a 53-foot (16 m) central hall running the depth of the house. In the middle an elliptical arch with
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The basement has brick walls and a wood floor over concrete. Due to accumulated moisture over the years some of the wood has rotted, and the brick facing has been damaged. It is used for the storage of vehicles and other large items.
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The house originated with a land office from the earliest days of Le Roy's settlement, a building still structurally part of the house. After Jacob Le Roy expanded it considerably, its use as a single-family house lasted until the
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enclosure. It leads to the basement. The south, the side facing the street, is similar to the other faces except for having two narrow windows in the westernmost bay. All its windows have rock-faced lintels and smooth sills.
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for faculty and students at Ingham and the Le Roy Academic Institute, an early secular private school. Upon the establishment of the Le Roy Historical Society in 1941 it became the local historical museum.
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In 1941 the local historical society was finally established and took title to the house, restoring the bake oven and brick hearth in the basement kitchen soon afterwards. Olmsted's company was bought by
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The two-story brick building Benson had constructed on the site of the current house is its earliest section. At that time it had an entrance on the west (now a window) and a narrow circular stair to the
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Upstairs, the third floor is closed to the public and used for storage of collection material not currently on exhibit. It has a center hall dividing three small rooms on the west side from a large
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on the floor except for the bathroom. All rooms are accessed by six-paneled wooden doors with half-glazing consisting of hand-painted frosted glass depicting landscapes, ruins, birds or animals.
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The northeast room is slightly larger than the other two. It has the upper level of the freight lift, and a beaded-front cabinet below the window on the east wall. On the north wall is a steam
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on the east. A small alcove projects from the west side of that room. There is extra storage space beneath the eaves on the north and south. The walls and ceilings are done in plaster.
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By 1823 it had reached its current size. Le Roy had added a two-story addition to the rear, doubling the interior, and the attic story. The new section was reportedly modeled after
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on that side consists of three aligned pairs of double-hung sash windows, one-over-one at the basement and first story, and two six-over-ones flanking a wooden door on the second.
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The school was original the west wing of an earlier frame structure, demolished in the 20th century. After being closed down, it was used as a factory for several decades.
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and was thriving, with mills and other industries being established. Jacob Le Roy, a son of Herman's who had traveled abroad learning the family business after studies at
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on the north side of what is now Main Street, just east of the future village's municipal boundary. He sold it a year later to a Capt. John Ganson, who expanded it into a
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The school was originally an addition built on a frame building, first for the Le Roy Academic Institute and then the local public school district, which it served as a
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The last of the Triangle Tract lots was sold by 1837, and the land office was formally closed. In the 1840s the front portico was added, giving the house its strong
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moldings at the ceiling. The tripartite window is recessed and flanked by fluted pilasters. On the east the fireplace mantel has a classical entablature and engaged
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in its west wall. Opposite, in the northeast, is the boiler room. The remaining room, in the center of the west side below the stairwell, is a small bathroom.
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In the southwest corner of the basement is the oldest room in the house, used for cold storage. It has a stone floor and vaulted brick ceiling, with walls of
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flanked by three-over-three sidelights on the first story complemented by eight-over-eight and two-over-two on the second. All have plain lintels and wooden
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remain on either side of the door on the north wall. Plaster has been stripped from that wall as well. Another steam radiator is along the south wall.
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The wooden west wing that had served as the original school in the 1860s was demolished in 1962. A new roof and gutter were installed in 1985, and
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Next to it, on the southeast, is the 832-square-foot (77.3 m) main exhibit room. The natural light from the windows is supplemented by modern
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East of the center hall, the two parlors have the greatest degree of decoration. The smaller southeast one has ornate wooden surrounds and plaster
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trail was an obvious place to establish a settlement, and four years after the Triangle Tract was purchased a man named Charles Arthur built a
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for the sidelights. At the basement level a window on the west side provides light; the corresponding opening on the east has been bricked in.
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In 1890, four small rural school districts in the area were consolidated into the Le Roy Union Free School District, the precursor of today's
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and admission area for the museum. In the wider central portion of the hall is the freestanding chimney, its breast faced in plaster, with
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and wire cloth were added to the basement windows to protect against damage from stray balls on the nearby softball field, also used for
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on the east and west. On the north (rear) elevation is a full-width one-story porch on a concrete foundation with limestone steps. Its
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of the era. Fruit trees and flowering shrubs were planted around the house at this time. Six years later, in 1829, Le Roy hosted the
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frame the view to the tripartite window in the rear. Along its sides, lined with shallow molded wood paneling, are shallow closets.
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roof shingled in asphalt. Two brown brick chimneys with concrete caps pierce it at either end. The roofline has broad overhanging
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Le Roy expanded the small land office into a large house, with finely decorated interior. After its completion, he hosted the
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Both buildings are located on a 3-acre (1.2 ha) lot along the north side of East Main Street, 500 feet (150 m) east of
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it. Seven years later, in 1898, the school district built a stone addition, the extant building, onto the frame building.
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In 1813 the community was named after Herman Le Roy, senior partner in the landowning firm and former director of the
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limestone. To its north is a smaller vaulted room with a brick vault on the main floor, formerly the site of the
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leading into the northwest room. A closed portion in the northeast corner houses the original circular stairway.
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three windows to the west being narrower. At the first story's northeast corner is a secondary entrance with a
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kitchen was remodeled, with the shiplap ceiling added and the original fireplace and bake oven bricked shut.
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end of the entrance hall, is lit by the windows on that elevation. The dogleg stair itself has simple square
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The house and school were bought by Allen Olmsted, owner of a local company that manufactured
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gate posts. Two drives on either side made a circle around the veranda. In 1856 he moved out.
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in 1857. During the 1860s pipelines were laid to the house to provide gas for heating and
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in 1817, he sent his nephew Egbert Benson Jr. to Le Roy to serve as the company's agent.
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shelving along the east and north walls. It has a stone floor, plaster walls, and wooden
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beneath. The chimney itself is in the northwest corner. In the south room the original
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sold the house to Alfred Bartow and returned to New York City. He died there in 1847.
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The largest of the second floor bathrooms, the northeast one, has a fireplace with a
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and the local public schools. During the late 19th century it was subdivided into a
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The Le Roy House is today owned by the Le Roy Historical Society and operated as
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school on the site of the present school, with enough space for 250 students.
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limestone building with wooden interior framing. It is topped by an asphalt
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wainscoting. A small administrative office is in the southwest corner.
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tails. Its raised basement has larger blocks and is separated by a
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The northwest room houses a ceramics exhibit, and has exposed blue
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wall. The east wall has a kitchen unit, and the room is floored in
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The paneled main entrance door, with single-light sidelights and
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has a classical entablature, Doric columns and a glazed brick
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and widening to the north, it was called the Triangle Tract.
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frames the centrally located main entrance in a hip roofed
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In 1837, Mariette and Emily Ingham had established the
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surrounds with molded corner blocks. The west wall's
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The school building is a three-story five-by-eight-
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places
A pale blue house with black shutters, brown bric chimneys and a front porch with Greek-style columns seen from its front right.
Le Roy House and Union Free School is located in New York
Le Roy House and Union Free School is located in the United States
Le Roy
NY
Batavia
42°58′42″N 77°59′08″W / 42.9784°N 77.9855°W / 42.9784; -77.9855
Greek Revival
97001388
New York State Route 5
Le Roy
stucco
Greek Revival
architectural style
reception
Daniel Webster
Ingham University
boardinghouse
high school
patent medicines
historic house museum
converted
Jell-O Gallery
Jell-O
Oatka Creek
National Register of Historic Places
stucco
limestone
foundation

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