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.

Later renovations gave them some touches of styles from later in the 19th century, such as Italianate and Gothic Revival; however they remain largely intact in their original designs.

At less than an acre in total area it is the smallest National Historic Landmark District in the state.

Immediately adjacent to a modern gas station at the northeast is the first of the two parcels, containing the church and Ward House, its onetime parsonage.

The smooth round cobblestones from the lake began to be used as a building material around 1825, in Wayne and Monroe counties to the east.

The English masons who worked on the Erie Canal are believed to have pioneered the technique, borrowing from Roman building traditions still followed in Britain.

Local farmers of means in the counties along the Lake Ontario shore had houses built of cobblestone in the Federal and Greek Revival architectural styles.

[1] John Proctor, a successful real estate speculator who had made money in Massachusetts and Vermont as well as elsewhere in New York, bought the Childs area in the 1820s and planned the village, subdividing it into lots.

Newspaper editor Horace Greeley's aunt and uncle, Benjamin and Mary Ann Woodburn Dwinnell, lived in the Ward House.

[9] In 1966 an architect working from photos of the original tower designed an exact copy as a replacement, and it was installed.

Brick also frames a marble tablet over the front door that reads: "Erected by the First Universalist Society A D 1834 GOD IS LOVE".

[1] On the inside the lobby has stairs to the gallery, with delicate square newels topped by spherical finials, on each side.

[1] Believed to have been built around 1840 as a parsonage, it is a hipped-roofed Federal style one-story building with a raised basement giving the effect of a ground floor.

On the east and west sides of the ground level the field cobbles are set in the Gaines Pattern, in which each is part of a small hexagonal box.

It is a one-and-a-half-story Greek Revival gabled building topped by an open belfry with louvered vents and domed roof at the south (front) end.

In the front center are two separate doors, for boys and girls, similarly treated, with small stone steps.

[1] In the classroom, the maple flooring is inclined so students in the northern portion, the rear, were sitting higher than those in the front.

All three buildings are property of the Cobblestone Society, founded when 60 people met at the church in 1960 to discuss how to best preserve them.

Money earned from these endeavors has helped it restore the buildings and give demonstrations of cobblestone masonry techniques.