List of Entries on the National Register of Historic Places in Genesee County, New York
This list of monuments on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Genesee County includes all cultural monuments listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Genesee County , New York , United States through March 25, 2011 . Of the current 19 registered sites, one, the Holland Land Office , is classified as a National Historic Landmark .
List of entries
designation | image | Date of registration | location | place | description | |
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1 | Alexander Classical School | October 25, 1973 | Buffalo St. 42 ° 54 '8 " N , 78 ° 15' 34" W. |
Alexander | Rare three-story fieldstone structure , the only cultural monument of its kind in the county; it was built as a boarding school in 1837 and was later used as a public school and then as a town hall. | |
2 | Batavia Cemetery | April 8, 2002 | Harvester Ave. 42 ° 59 ′ 36 " N , 78 ° 10 ′ 17" W. |
Batavia | The cemetery was established in 1823. People buried here include Joseph Ellicott , Albert and Arthur Brisbane, and Dean Richmond in a mausoleum . A tall monument near the southern edge commemorates the disappearance of William Morgan, who was active against the Freemasons, in 1824. | |
3 | Batavia Club | June 19, 1973 | Main St. and Bank St. 42 ° 59 ′ 51 ″ N , 78 ° 10 ′ 55 ″ W. |
Batavia | The federal-style brick building, built in 1831, was originally a bank. It is one of only two remaining structures in New York by Hezekiah Eldredge . | |
4th | First Presbyterian Church | December 6, 2004 | 300 E. Main St. 42 ° 59 ′ 55 " N , 78 ° 10 ′ 46" W. |
Batavia | Church complex that arose between 1854 and 1919, reflecting changes in the practice of American Protestants. | |
5 | Genesee County Courthouse | June 18, 1973 | Main St. and Ellicott St. 42 ° 59 ′ 52 ″ N , 78 ° 11 ′ 14 ″ W. |
Batavia | Classicist limestone building from 1843 that replaced the original courthouse that served the entire Holland Purchase . Materials found on site were used in the construction; the building is in the focal point of the historic district to the west of downtown Batavia. | |
6th | Genesee County Courthouse Historic District | December 10, 1982 | bounded by Porter and Jefferson Ave. and Main, Court and Ellicott St. 42 ° 59 '53 " N , 78 ° 11' 14" W. |
Batavia | The administrative core of Batavia, five administrative buildings stand at the fork of old Iroquois paths . The buildings were built between the 1840s and 1920s. | |
7th | Gifford-Walker Farm | January 10, 1980 | 7083 N. Bergen Rd. 43 ° 7 ′ 51 ″ N , 78 ° 0 ′ 54 ″ W. |
North Bergen | intact farmhouse from 1870 in the style of Carpenter Gothic | |
8th | Holland Land Office | October 15, 1966 | W. Main St. 42 ° 59 ′ 55 " N , 78 ° 11 ′ 21" W. |
Batavia | Built in 1815, the neo-classical structure was the main sales office for the original owners of Western New York , the Holland Land Company | |
9 | Keeney House | September 11, 1979 | 13 W. Main St 42 ° 58 ′ 38 " N , 77 ° 59 ′ 35" W. |
Le Roy | House built in the Federal style in the 1820s. Later additions in the classical style were removed during a renovation in the early 20th century. | |
10 | Lake Street Historic District | 5th September 1985 | 10 and 12 S. Lake St. and 11-27 N. Lake St. 43 ° 5 ′ 7 ″ N , 77 ° 56 ′ 33 ″ W. |
Mountains | small group of buildings in downtown Bergen, built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many of them with cast iron shop fronts | |
11 | Le Roy House and Union Free School |
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November 7, 1997 | 23 E. Main St. 42 ° 58 ′ 42 ″ N , 77 ° 59 ′ 11 ″ W. |
Le Roy | The classical house houses a local museum. It was built from 1823 by Jacob Le Roy in three phases. The school building behind it, erected in 1898, now serves as the Jell-O Museum. |
12 | Machpelah Cemetery | November 19, 2007 | North St. 42 ° 59 ′ 10.5 " N , 77 ° 59 ′ 0.6" W. |
Le Roy | Landscape cemetery, which was opened in 1858 and then gradually expanded. The tombstones reflect different styles of cemetery art up to the present day. Jell-O -Tycoon orator Francis Woodward is buried here in a neoclassical protruding mausoleum. | |
13 | Marion Steam Shovel | February 22, 2008 | Gulf Rd. 42 ° 59 '33.1 " N , 77 ° 56" 17.1 " W. |
LeRoy | The only remaining steam-powered excavator Marion Model 91; possibly the largest excavator of its kind still in existence in the world. It is believed that the machine was used in the construction of the Panama Canal . | |
14th | Morganville Pottery Factory Site | February 15, 1974 | Address classified | Morganville | Site of a factory that existed for most of the 19th century producing ceramic pipes and tiles. The site was archaeologically examined by the Rochester Museum and Science Center in 1973 , but there are believed to be many artifacts in the ground. | |
15th | Mount Pleasant | August 9, 1984 | 2032 Indian Falls Rd. 43 ° 0 ′ 45 ″ N , 78 ° 20 ′ 35 ″ W. |
Indian Falls | Cultivated Italianate style farmhouse from 1861 | |
16 | Richmond Memorial Library | July 24, 1974 | 19 Ross St. 42 ° 59 ′ 52 ″ N , 78 ° 10 ′ 38 ″ W. |
Batavia | Built in 1887 in the Richardsonian Romanesque style, it is modeled after several libraries built by Richardson in the Boston suburbs . | |
17th | Saint James' Episcopal Church | September 24, 2004 | 405 E. Main St. 42 ° 59 ′ 59 " N , 78 ° 10 ′ 32" W. |
Batavia | The neo-Gothic church, built in 1908, was the first of many to be built in western New York designed by Robert North. | |
18th | Stafford Village Four Corners Historic District | October 8, 1976 | Junction NY 5 and NY 237 42 ° 58 ′ 54 ″ N , 78 ° 4 ′ 25 ″ W |
Stafford | A nineteenth-century ensemble of buildings in the first permanent settlement in the Holland Purchase area , which includes one of the oldest houses in the county and the eclectic old Town Hall. | |
19th | US Post Office-Le Roy | May 11, 1989 | 2 Main St. 42 ° 58 ′ 39 ″ N , 77 ° 59 ′ 22 ″ W. |
Le Roy | A local patron financed the stones used to clad the facade of this post office, which was built in the late 1930s in an unusual style. |