Mallory Mill
Steuben Co. | New York | USA
Watersource: Arden Brook.
Mallory Mill
From Bath, New York take Route 54 North about eleven miles to Hammondsport and turn left onto Route 54A into Hammondsport. Drive straight into town and up to the concrete culvert that channels water to Keuka Lake. The mill is right against the hill side on the other side of the channel.
The Mallory Mill is located in Steuben County, New York in the town of Hammondsport.
The Mallory stone mill, which still stands as one of the prominent landmarks in the Village of Hammondsport, on Pulteney Street. It was begun in 1835 and finished in 1836 by Meridith Mallory of Yates County.
Investing $30,000, Mr. Mallory utilized the services of John Capell, a Master Millwright and Mallorys son-in-law, Mr. Van Autrick, as the engineer to build a stone mill four stories high, powered by three overshot and one pitch-back waterwheels. Water was supplied by a canal dug from the Hammondsport Glen, along the hillside to the mill.
When it was finished in 1836, the mill was a first class merchant and custom mill with four sets of burr stones. At the time it was completed, the mill was the largest free-standing stone building except for the Statehouse, in New York State.
The planner, Mr. Mallory, his millwright, and the engineer all failed to realize that the water supply would freeze in the winter months and that there would be nothing to drive the waterwheels and the huge stones which ground the grains. By 1840, the mill closed. For several years it was used as a winery and eventually was used as a storage place for grain and other merchant products.