Cobblestone architecture

Cobblestone architecture may have been used on a monumental scale to erect public administrative centers or palaces.

The stones used in the construction were typically of a rounded shape; they had been deposited in the area by glaciers, and cleared from the fields by early farmers, or brought from the shores of Lake Ontario.

[4][6] The style was prominent between 1835 and about 1860; around 900 cobblestone buildings were constructed in New York state before the American Civil War.

[6] The Town Hall in Westport, Connecticut, built in 1908, is unusual for including a cobblestone exterior surface within a Classical Revival style design.

The exterior surface may be carefully constructed for decorative effect, with cobbles matched in size and color.

The Cobblestone Schoolhouse is part of the Cobblestone Historic District , in the hamlet of Childs, New York .
Paris Plains Church, Paris, Ontario, 1845, cobblestone architecture
The ruins of the medieval Thetford Priory in England show flint cobbles and mortar through the whole depth of the wall