SITES IN ONTARIO
COUNTY
LISTED
ON THE STATE AND
NATIONAL
REGISTERS OF HISTORIC
PLACES
(ALSO THE HISTORIC
AMERICAN BUILDINGS SURVEY)
Compiled by Preston E. Pierce, EdD
Ontario
County Historian
This listing is an
update to the previous listings compiled by the Office of the Ontario County
Historian.
Notices of admission
to the National Register appear in periodic issues of the Federal Register. Copies
of the Federal Register, containing the National Register of Historic Places, are still difficult to find
for many local residents and officials.
Therefore, the County Historian's Office presents the listing below as a
single reference guide to National Register sites in Ontario County. In recent years, however, the National
Register citations can be accessed through the National Park Service Internet
website: http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/.
Additions or
corrections would be appreciated since the Historian must depend on
communication from the state and others, and since the information is vital to
local governments, preservationists, and developers. Since it is also protected under the State Environmental Quality
Review law, any property which appears to be eligible for the register should
also be reported. Property which
appears to be eligible would include property formally nominated to the New
York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation. Contact Dr. Preston Pierce, Ontario County
Historian, 3871 County Road #46, Canandaigua, New York 14424.
The dated notations
below do not refer to the dates of the Federal Register or any state
register. Rather, the notice citation
dates here refer to dates of notification letters received by the Office of the
Ontario County Historian. Each update
of this list is dated. Each list
supercedes all previous lists.
In New York, the
action office for National Register nominations is the New York State Office of
Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, Historic Preservation Field
Services Bureau, Peebles Island, PO Box 189, Waterford, NY 12188-0189. Their telephone number is (518) 237-8643.
SITE
LISTINGS BY MUNICIPALITY
VILLAGE OF
BLOOMFIELD:
Properties listed
under the former Villages of East Bloomfield and Holcomb would now be listed
for Bloomfield.
St. Peter's
Episcopal Church (44 Main St.) Nomination notice 1/7/97.
CITY OF
CANANDAIGUA:
Adelaide Avenue
School (106‑116 Adelaide Avenue)
Benham House (#280‑282
South Main Street)
Brigham Hall
Complex (229 Bristol Street)
Canandaigua
Historic District including specifically:
Bemis Street (#123,
125, 106, 126‑132, 134)
Bristol Street (#9‑81,
38‑80)
Center Street
(#198, 200‑256, 258 1/2, 201, 203‑257)
Coy Street (#9‑13,
15, 24‑26)
Dailey Avenue (#15,
17‑21, 23)
Fort Hill Avenue
(#40)
Gibson Street (#29‑185,
16‑232)
Gorham Street (#6‑116,
25‑115, 117)
Howell Street (#15‑185,
187, 16, 18‑152)
Niagara Street
(#13, 15‑19)
North Main Street
(#2‑336, 27‑335)
[These
properties, together with the property at #16 Gibson street, were part
of the original
North Main
Street Historic District established in 1973.]
Park Place (#99, 100‑136)
Phoenix Street (#9‑11, 17, 4, 6‑20)
Sly Street (#19, 21‑23)
South Main Street (#29, 33‑245,
28, 44‑230, 236)
Cobblestone Manor (#495 North Main
Street)
Granger Cottage (#60 Granger Street)
Granger Homestead [Francis Granger
house](#426 North Main Street)
Marshall House (#274 Bristol Street)
Saltonstall Street School (47
Saltonstall Street)
Sonnenberg
Gardens (#151 Charlotte Street)
Thaddeus
Chapin House (#128 Thad Chapin Street)
US Post
Office [YMCA] (#28 N. Main St.) Listed separately by National Register 11/17/88
#426
South Main Street
VILLAGE OF CLIFTON
SPRINGS:
Clifton Springs
Sanitarium (11 East Main Street)
Clifton
Springs Sanitarium Historic District
Boundary
Increase. Approval 4/1/90.
Foster
Block
YMCA
Maxwell
Hall
Woodbury
Building
Foster Cottage (9 East
Main Street)
VILLAGE OF EAST
BLOOMFIELD:
East Bloomfield
Historic District including specifically:
State
Street (#9‑39, 10‑22)
South
Avenue (#2‑10 inclusive)
Elton Park
East
Bloomfield Cemetery
Park
Street (#4, 6, 8)
Main
Street (#49, 51, 50‑52, 56‑60, 62)
West Main
Street (#59, 61, 63, 65, 67, 69, 75)
St. Bridget's Roman
Catholic Church Complex (15 Church St.)
Federal list notification
9/17/92.
St. Bridget's Roman
Catholic Cemetery (15 Church St., between Church and Michigan
Sts.). Listed separately 8/28/92.
TOWN OF EAST BLOOMFIELD:
Addison Wheeler
House (6353 Grimble Rd.). Notice of
placement on State Register
2/7/05,
CITY OF GENEVA:
Ashcroft (112 Jay St.)
Geneva Hall (Hobart
College)
Nestor House (Geneva‑on‑the‑Lake)
(1001 Lochland Road)
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Station [listed as "eligible" Nov. 9, 1987]
Pulteney Land Office
(106 Washington St.) Listed as "eligible."
South Main Street
Historic District including specifically:
East Side
of South Main Street (#375‑859)
West Side
of South Main Street (from the Masonic Temple to Jay Street including Park
Place and Pulteney Park)
Smith Opera House
Trinity Hall (Hobart
College)
US Post Office (67
Castle St.)
Parrott Hall
(Agricultural Experiment Station)
Geneva Armory (300
Main St.) State recommendation to
Federal list 1/6/95. Federal list
approved
4/14/95.
Washington Street
Cemetery (Washington St.) Notice of consideration 2/11/2002. Notice
of listing
4/23/2002.
First Baptist Church
(134 North Main St.) Notice of consideration 2/11/2002. State
recommendation
to Federal list 8/20, 2002. Notice of
placement on Federal list
10/25/02.
Genesee Park Historic
District. State recommendation to
Federal list 8/20/2002.
TOWN OF GENEVA:
Bellhurst Castle
(Lochland Rd.)
Thomas Barron House
(Rtes. 5 & 20 west of Geneva City)
TOWN OF HOPEWELL:
Oliver Warner
Farmstead (#2607 Route 488)
TOWN OF MANCHESTER:
Hill Cumorah site
[Cited in state letter to OCHS as Palmyra 8/31/89.] Approval tabled
by State
Review Board 4/10/73. Tabled status
unchanged 1997 per telephone
conversation
with Field Services Bureau, NYSOPRHP.
Port Gibson United
Methodist Church (2951 Greig St., Port Gibson) Final approval
notice
1/7/97.
VILLAGE OF NAPLES:
Ephraim Cleveland
House (201 N. Main St.) Letter of
federal approval 4/31/94.
Morgan Hook and Ladder
Building (18 Mill St.) State consideration letter 2/6/95. State list approved 5/22/95; federal list
approved 6/12/95.
Naples Memorial Town Hall (Main St.) State list approved 4/27/96; federal list approved
6/14/96.
TOWN OF PHELPS:
Harmon Cobblestone
Farmhouse (983 Smith Rd.) Notice of federal approval 6/12/1992.
William Hoffman House
(1064 Townline Rd., Phelps). Notice of State consideration
8/13/2002. State list approved 11/22/02. Approved to National Register 1/16/03.
[It
appears that, despite the address, this
property is actually located in Seneca
County due
to a bend in the road.]
Philetus Swift House
(866 Route 96). Placed on State
Register 2/7/05. Notice of listing on
National
Register 4/4/05.
VILLAGE OF PHELPS:
Phelps Community
Memorial Library (St. John's Episcopal Church)
First Baptist Church
of Phelps (26 Church St.) Notice of federal approval 6/12/1992.
Phelps Town Hall (79
Main St.) Notice of review by State 2/14/96.
Notice of federal
approval
5/30/96.
TOWN OF SENECA:
Seneca Presbyterian
(Number Nine) Church
Thomas Barron House
(#1160 Routes 5&20)
Rippey Cobblestone
House (1227 Leet Rd.) Letter of federal
listing 10/29/92.
Levi Barden
Cobblestone Farmhouse (5300 Wabash Rd.)
Notice of review and
consideration
by state 11/6/02. Notice of placement
on State Register 6/11/03.
Notice of
placement on National Register 6/11/03.
TOWN OF SOUTH
BRISTOL:
South Bristol Grange
1107 (6457 Rte. 64, Bristol Springs) Notice of review by state
8/8/97. Letter of federal listing 4/10/98.
Wilder Cemetery (5809
Rt. 64). Notice of consideration
2/11/2002. Approved to National
Register
4/9/03.
TOWN OF VICTOR:
Boughton Hill [roughly
the area of the Ganondagan State Historic Site]
Felt Cobblestone
General Store (6452 Route 96) Notice of
federal approval 6/12/1992.
Cobblestone Railroad
Pumphouse (County Rd. 42 in Fishers)
Notice of federal approval
6/12/1992.
District 7 Cobblestone Schoolhouse
(236 High St. Ext.) Notice of consideration: 2/14/92. Information from Town Historian indicates that approval was not granted due to extensive
exterior design change.
Valentown Hall
(Valentown Square [High Street at Valentown Rd.]) Notice of
consideration
2/10/97. Notice of final approval
6/18/97.
Jeremiah Cronkite
House (1095 Lynaugh Rd.) Notice of placement on State Register
12/27/2001. Contemporary press reports indicate that
property owner may have
requested
removal from the register after approval.
No reverse action noted as of
this date.
VILLAGE OF VICTOR:
Osborne‑Harris House
(#146 Maple Avenue)
Osborne House
Outbuildings
REGISTER ENTRIES
IN NEED OF CLARIFICATION
CANANDAIGUA CITY:
Veterans
Administration Medical Center [This "structure" was listed in the
Federal
Register (47 FR 4965) on
February 2, 1982. There is some question about the status of the buildings and
which ones are covered. Documents in
the files of the Engineering Dept. at the VA Medical Center indicate that the VA has merely determined that the site
may be eligible for listing, but is not
actually listed.
The old mill at #132‑134
Bemis Street has been demolished.
The house at #26 Coy
Street has been demolished.
St. Mary's Church
Convent, 16 Gibson Street, is on the Register as the General John A. Granger House.
From the ground it appears to be on Main Street but the address
is Gibson
Street.
The Ontario County
Court House, a part of the Canandaigua Historic District, is on the National Register.
The City Pier and
Colonial Inn (McGregor's) may not be cited in the National Register but may be included in a City Historic
Preservation Ordinance.
GENEVA CITY:
Hotel Seneca (Now
demolished)
Jacobs Building
(Exchange Street)
Both of the above structures were
listed in the Federal Register (46 FR 10676) on February 3, 1981 although at
least one of them has since been demolished.
TOWN OF MANCHESTER:
Hill Cumorah is still
"tabled" and its status as a
historic property under state and federal
legislation
is questionable. No reason for the
tabling has ever been given.
TOWN OF VICTOR:
Ganondagan State
Historic Site (Boughton Hill) was increased in size by 245 acres in July,
1998. No notice
was received that the new acreage was included in the register citation.
HISTORIC
AMERICAN BUILDINGS SURVEY
The Historic American
Buildings Survey began in 1935 and has continued under the auspices of various
federal agencies. Since its inception,
the Survey has provided architects renderings of approximately 15,000 buildings
nationwide. Historic buildings,
residential, commercial and industrial, are nominated to the Survey by local,
state, and federal officials and by interested citizens. The architectural renderings, when
completed, are deposited in the National Archives. Drawings for most of these entries are available on the Internet
at the website of the Library of Congress, http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/pphome.html. Simply fill in the querry box with a search
parameter such as “Congregational church Canandaigua.”
The Survey, which
antedates the National Register of Historic Places by 31 years, was the first
attempt by the federal government to note historic buildings for posterity and
document their appearance. The National
Register program was begun in 1966 as a result of the National Historic
Preservation Act passed by Congress that year.
According to a 1983 study of the Historic American Buildings Survey
(undertaken by Alicia Stamm of the National Park Service) almost half of the
12,000 entries on the Survey had been demolished by 1966.
In this age of
expansion and development, especially in Ontario County, it is important to
note the existence of the Historic American Buildings Survey. Not only does the Survey take note of our
historic building resources, but it also emphasizes the importance of the
buildings and documents their historic appearances. Local historical groups should note that copies of the architects
renderings may be obtained from the National Archives or the National Park
Service. Survey entry numbers are provided
here. A copy of the complete survey (as
of 1983; there have been very few entries since) can be found in the reference
section of the Library of Community College of the Finger Lakes.
SURVEY
CITATIONS BY MUNICIPALITY
TOWN OF BRISTOL:
Bristol Center
Presbyterian Church (HABS # NY‑235)
CITY OF
CANANDAIGUA:
Carr‑Hayes
House, Gibson and Hubbell Streets, (HABS # NY‑214)
First Congregational Church, North Main Street, (HABS #
NY‑5‑R‑11) Reported
in Ontario
County Times-Journal, Mar. 22, 1935.
Gideon Granger House,
295 North Main Street, (HABS # NY‑5‑R‑2)
Henry Lansing House, 72 East Gibson
Street, (HABS # NY‑212)
The City Pier may
be covered by a Historic Preservation ordinance but does not appear to be named
in the National Register.
CITY OF GENEVA:
Andrew Burns House, 859 South Main
Street, (HABS # NY‑230)
Jebidiah Chapman House [Survey
spelling], 562 South Main Street, HABS # NY‑232)
Chew House (Entrance), 600 South
Main Street, (HABS # NY‑239)
Nester Hotel (Hotel Geneva), 529‑533
Exchange Street, (HABS # NY‑5706)
Truslow House, 606 South Main
Street, (HABS # NY‑238) Wheat House, 584 South Main Street, (HABS # NY‑237)
Col. Charles Williamson House, 839
South Main Street, (HABS # NY‑233)
VILLAGE OF NAPLES:
Ephraim Cleveland House, [no address
given], HABS # NY‑236)