National Register of Historic Places listings in Orleans County, New York

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This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Orleans County, New York. The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all showing latitude and longitude coordinates below) may be seen in a Google map by clicking on "Map of all coordinates".^{[note 1]} One listing, the Cobblestone Historic District, is further designated a National Historic Landmark.

There are currently 18 total listings in the county. This ties Orleans with Hamilton County for second fewest in the state after Schuyler County's 13.^[1] Five of the listings are historic districts, including Mount Albion Cemetery (Millville Cemetery is classified as a site). The remaining 12 are individual buildings. No structures in the county are yet listed on the National Register.

This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted November 18, 2011.^[2]

Contents: Counties in New York

Albany (Albany) – Allegany – Bronx – Broome – Cattaraugus – Cayuga – Chautauqua – Chemung – Chenango – Clinton – Columbia – Cortland – Delaware – Dutchess – Erie (Buffalo) – Essex – Franklin – Fulton – Genesee – Greene – Hamilton – Herkimer – Jefferson – Kings (Brooklyn) – Lewis – Livingston – Madison – Monroe (Rochester) – Montgomery – Nassau – New York (Manhattan – Below 14th Street, 14th to 59th Streets, 59th to 110th Streets, Above 110th Street, Islands) – Niagara – Oneida – Onondaga (Syracuse) – Ontario – Orange – Orleans – Oswego – Otsego – Putnam – Queens – Rensselaer – Richmond (Staten Island) – Rockland – Saratoga – Schenectady – Schoharie – Schuyler – Seneca – St. Lawrence – Steuben – Suffolk – Sullivan – Tioga – Tompkins – Ulster – Warren – Washington – Wayne – Westchester (New Rochelle, Peekskill, Yonkers) – Wyoming – Yates

Overview

Of the 13 buildings, 10 have been used as dwellings at some point in their history. Two^{[note 2]} of those were originally inns that have since become residences. The Tousley-Church House was later converted into the local Daughters of the American Revolution chapter offices.^[3] The four conventional historic districts^{[note 3]} all include some residential properties as well among their contributing properties.

All of the other three—the Albion and Medina post offices and the Medina Armory—are government buildings. The armory is now used by the local YMCA. No commercial buildings in Orleans County are individually listed on the Register. Nor are any religious buildings, although seven churches contribute to the Orleans County Courthouse Historic District.^[4] Similarly, no educational buildings have been listed on their own; the Cobblestone Historic District includes an old one-room schoolhouse among its contributing properties.

In the five districts, there are 135 buildings on 104 acres (42 ha). Most of that acreage is accounted for by Mt. Albion Cemetery, the largest listing in the county at 70 acres (28 ha). The Cobblestone Historic District, with three buildings on two discontiguous plots totaling three-quarters of an acre (3,000 m²), is the smallest district and the smallest National Historic Landmark District in New York.

The other three districts are in the downtowns of Medina and Albion, the largest settlements in the county. The two Albion districts abut each other, with the southerly being characterized by the public buildings, whurches and residences around the county courthouse while the northerly is primarily commercial. Medina's Main Street Historic District is almost all commercial property.

All but three of the buildings (and one structure^{[note 4]}) within the historic districts are considered contributing properties. None of the contributing properties are themselves listed individually on the Register. However, the Albion post office, within the bounds of the county courthouse historic district, is not considered a contributing property to it despite later being listed on the Register, since it was built two decades after the district's period of significance.

Listings county-wide

This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted November 18, 2011.^[5]

Legend:      National Register of Historic Places listing      National Historic Landmark      Historic district      National Historic Landmark District

[6]	Landmark name	Image	Date listed	Location	City or town	Summary
1	William V. N. Barlow House		0Error: invalid timeNone	223 S. Clinton St. 43°14′22″N 78°11′47″W / 43.23944°N 78.19639°W / 43.23944; -78.19639 (Barlow, William V. N., House)[7]	Albion	Barlow, architect of many important buildings in downtown Albion, including the county courthouse, built this eclectic home for himself in 1875. Its rear yard has one of the village's few remaining hand-pumped wells.[7]
2	Jackson Blood Cobblestone House		0Error: invalid timeNone	142 S. Main St. 43°19′0.39″N 78°23′21.78″W / 43.316775°N 78.3893833°W / 43.316775; -78.3893833 (Blood, Jackson, Cobblestone House)[8]	Lyndonville	The Blood family is supposed to have built this sophisticated 1846 Greek Revival cobblestone house by hauling the stones down from Lake Ontario themselves.[8]
3	Butterfield Cobblestone House		0Error: invalid timeNone	4690 Bennetts Corners Rd. 43°11′19″N 78°1′2″W / 43.18861°N 78.01722°W / 43.18861; -78.01722 (Butterfield Cobblestone House)[9]	Clarendon	This 1849 Greek Revival cobblestone house is the only such structure in Clarendon. It is considered the finest building in that style in county.[9]
4	Cobblestone Historic District		01993-04-19 April 19, 1993[10]	Ridge Rd. (NY 104)43°17′13″N 78°11′24″W / 43.28694°N 78.19°W / 43.28694; -78.19[11]	Childs	Orleans County's only National Historic Landmark, and the state's smallest NHL district, consists of three 19th-century cobblestone buildings reflecting style at its highest in different periods. They include the state's oldest known cobblestone church and its parsonage, as well as one of only two buildings with cobblestone veneer over wood frame.[11]
5	Cobblestone Inn		0Error: invalid timeNone	12226 Ridge Rd. 43°16′28″N 78°19′59″W / 43.27444°N 78.33306°W / 43.27444; -78.33306 (Cobblestone Inn)[12]	Oak Orchard on-the-Ridge	This 1837 tavern, which one served traffic on the Ridge Road, is possibly the largest cobblestone building in the state. It later became a restaurant and is now a residential duplex[12]
6	Benjamin Franklin Gates House		0Error: invalid timeNone	13079 W. Lee Rd. 43°12′10″N 78°16′43″W / 43.20278°N 78.27861°W / 43.20278; -78.27861 (Gates, Benjamin Franklin, House)[13]	Barre	Gates, a pioneering settler of Barre, built this Greek Revival stacked-plank house and the region's first tannery around 1830. New owners restored it in the early 21st century; it is still a working farm.[13]
7	Main Street Historic District		0Error: invalid timeNone	Roughly, along Main and Center Sts., West Ave. and Proctor[14] Pl. 43°13′13″N 78°23′13″W / 43.220278°N 78.386944°W / 43.220278; -78.386944 (Main Street Historic District)	Medina	When Medina came into existence following the construction of the Erie Canal, this strip from the canal to the railroad tracks was the first area of the village. Its buildings, from the 1830s to the 1940s, are relics of Medina's industrial peak years.[14] The district was later expanded slightly to include the Medina Railroad Museum building.[15]
8	Medina Armory		0Error: invalid timeNone	302 Pearl St. 43°13′19″N 78°23′32″W / 43.22194°N 78.39222°W / 43.22194; -78.39222 (Medina Armory)[16]	Medina	This structure, built of locally quarried Medina sandstone, was George Heins' first commission as state architect in 1901. It is today the Lake Plains YMCA.[16]
9	Millville Cemetery		0Error: invalid timeNone	E. Shelby Rd. 43°11′23″N 78°19′28″W / 43.18972°N 78.32444°W / 43.18972; -78.32444 (Millville Cemetery)[17]	Millville	This exemplary 1871 rural cemetery on a small hill, expanded from earlier burying ground, is the final resting place of many residents of this former bustling agricultural hamlet.[17]
10	Mt. Albion Cemetery		0Error: invalid timeNone	New York State Route 31 43°14′22″N 78°9′20″W / 43.23944°N 78.15556°W / 43.23944; -78.15556 (Mt. Albion Cemetery)[18]	Town of Albion	This rural cemetery was built in 1842 on a high drumlin outside of Albion. It features local Civil War monument and chapel. Among those buried here are many local politicians of the 19th century, and former Georgia governor Rufus Bullock.[18]
11	North Main-Bank Streets Historic District		0Error: invalid timeNone	Roughly, along N. Main, E. Bank, W. Bank and Liberty Sts. 43°14′51″N 78°11′37″W / 43.2475°N 78.19361°W / 43.2475; -78.19361 (North Main--Bank Streets Historic District)[19]	Albion	The northerly of Albion's two downtown historic districts is one of the most intact commercial areas along the Erie Canal, with buildings from the century after its completion.[19]
12	Orleans County Courthouse Historic District		0Error: invalid timeNone	Courthouse Sq. and environs 43°14′45″N 78°11′36″W / 43.24583°N 78.19333°W / 43.24583; -78.19333 (Orleans County Courthouse Historic District)[4]	Albion	The southern downtown Albion historic district is the civic and religious center of the village and county. Centered around William Barlow's 1858 county courthouse are residential, commercial and institutional buildings, including seven churches. Many use Medina sandstone.[4]
13	Servoss House		0Error: invalid timeNone	3963 Fruit Ave. 43°13′0″N 78°25′51″W / 43.216667°N 78.43083°W / 43.216667; -78.43083 (Servoss House)[20]	Ridgeway	A former canal worker built this early 1830s Greek Revival house alongside the canal using an unusual horizontal-plank structural system.[20]
14	John Shelp Cobblestone House		0Error: invalid timeNone	10181 West Shelby Rd. 43°9′17″N 78°27′51″W / 43.15472°N 78.46417°W / 43.15472; -78.46417 (Shelp, John, Cobblestone House)[21]	West Shelby	In the late 19th century, the owners of this sophisticated 1836 Greek Revival cobblestone house redid the interior in the Queen Anne Style[21]
15	Skinner-Tinkham House		0Error: invalid timeNone	4652 Oak Orchard Rd. 43°11′11″N 78°11′40″W / 43.18639°N 78.19444°W / 43.18639; -78.19444 (Skinner--Tinkham House)[22]	Barre Center	This 1829 Federal-style tavern along a busy highway, later remodeled into house, is one of the county's few surviving brick buildings in that style. Restoration efforts are underway after several decades of neglect.[22]
16	Tousley-Church House		0Error: invalid timeNone	249 N. Main St. 43°15′8″N 78°11′34″W / 43.25222°N 78.19278°W / 43.25222; -78.19278 (Tousley--Church House)[3]	Albion	This 1840 Greek Revival house was expanded ten years later in a fashion showing strong influence of Minard Lafever. Since being renovated in the 1930s it has housed the local Daughters of the American Revolution chapter.[3]
17	US Post Office-Albion		0Error: invalid timeNone	Main St. 43°14′45.6″N 78°11′38.7″W / 43.246°N 78.194083°W / 43.246; -78.194083 (US Post Office--Albion)[23]	Albion	This 1937 post office uses one of more popular Colonial Revival designs for post offices in the state. It is within the Orleans County Courthouse Historic District, but not considered a contributing property to that listing since it was built after 1910.[23]
18	US Post Office-Medina		0Error: invalid timeNone	128 W. Center St. 43°13′14″N 78°23′19″W / 43.22056°N 78.38861°W / 43.22056; -78.38861 (US Post Office--Medina)[24]	Medina	The only other known reuse of this sophisticated 1931 Colonial Revival design is in Salem, Indiana.[24]

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in New York

Notes

1. ^ The latitude and longitude information provided in this table was derived originally from the National Register Information System, which has been found to be fairly accurate for about 99% of listings. For about 1% of NRIS original coordinates, experience has shown that one or both coordinates are typos or otherwise extremely far off; some corrections may have been made. A more subtle problem causes many locations to be off by up to 150 yards, depending on location in the country: most NRIS coordinates were derived from tracing out latitude and longitudes off of USGS topographical quadrant maps created under the North American Datum of 1927, which differs from the current, highly accurate WGS84 GPS system used by Google maps. Chicago is about right, but NRIS longitudes in Washington are higher by about 4.5 seconds, and are lower by about 2.0 seconds in Maine. Latitudes differ by about 1.0 second in Florida. Some locations in this table may have been corrected to current GPS standards.
2. ^ Skinner-Tinkham House and Cobblestone Inn
3. ^ Excluding Mt. Albion Cemetery.
4. ^ A small park within the North Main-Bank Streets Historic District in Albion, built on the site of a building that burned.

References

1. ^ "New York - Schuyler County". nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com. http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/ny/Schuyler/state.html. Retrieved September 19, 2010. 
2. ^ "National Register of Historic Places: Weekly List Actions". National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved on November 18, 2011.
3. ^ ^{a b c} Robert T. Englert (July 2001). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Tousley-Church House". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=7109. Retrieved 2009-06-14. See also: "Accompanying 24 photos". http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=7119. 
4. ^ ^{a b c} C. Wilson Lettin (February 1979). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Orleans County Courthouse Historic District". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=6751. Retrieved 2009-06-14.  See also: "Accompanying six photos". http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=6743. 
5. ^ "National Register of Historic Places: Weekly List Actions". National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved on November 18, 2011.
6. ^ Numbers represent an ordering by significant words. Various colorings, defined here, differentiate National Historic Landmark sites and National Register of Historic Places Districts from other NRHP buildings, structures, sites or objects.
7. ^ ^{a b} Claire L. Ross (July 1983). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Barlow, William V. N., House". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=6746. Retrieved 2009-06-14. See also: "Accompanying nine photos". http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=6740. 
8. ^ ^{a b} Robert T. Englert (February 2005). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Blood, Jackson, Cobblestone House". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=101128. Retrieved 2009-06-14. See also: "Accompanying 10 photos". http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=101130. 
9. ^ ^{a b} Robert T. Englert (July 2009). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Butterfield Cobblestone House". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=103216. Retrieved 2010-06-15.  See also: "Accompanying photos". http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=103246. 
10. ^ "Cobblestone Historic District". National Park Service. http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=2160&ResourceType=District. Retrieved September 16, 2010. 
11. ^ ^{a b} Delia Robinson, C.W. Lattin, Nancy Todd, and Carolyn Pitts (September 23, 1982). National Historic Landmark Nomination: Cobblestone Historic DistrictPDF (271 KB). National Park Service  and Accompanying 14 photos, exterior and interior, from 1965 and 1992.PDF (3.12 MB)
12. ^ ^{a b} Robert T. Englert (December 2006). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Cobblestone Inn". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=102048. Retrieved 2009-06-14. See also: "Accompanying four photos". http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=102049. 
13. ^ ^{a b} Robert T. Englert (June 2008). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Benjamin Franklin Gates House". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=103423. Retrieved 2010-11-09. See also: "Accompanying six photos". http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=103446. 
14. ^ ^{a b} Nancy L. Todd (January 1995). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Main Street Historic District". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=6761. Retrieved 2009-06-14.  See also: "Accompanying 21 photos". http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=6758. 
15. ^ Elizabeth A. Bakker Johnson (September 1997). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Main Street Historic District Boundary Increase". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=7036. Retrieved 2009-06-14.  See also: "Accompanying five photos". http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=7039. 
16. ^ ^{a b} Nancy L. Todd (March 1995). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Medina Armory". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=6756. Retrieved 2009-06-14.  See also: "Accompanying eight photos". http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=6745. 
17. ^ ^{a b} Robert T. Englert (January 2007). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Millville Cemetery". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=102392. Retrieved 2009-06-14.  See also: "Accompanying eight photos". http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=102370. 
18. ^ ^{a b} C. E. Brooke (June 1976). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Mt. Albion Cemetery". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=6747. Retrieved 2009-06-14.  See also: "Accompanying seven photos". http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=6741. 
19. ^ ^{a b} Nancy L. Todd (September 1994). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: North Main-Bank Streets Historic District". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=6749. Retrieved 2009-06-14.  See also: "Accompanying eleven photos". http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=6742. 
20. ^ ^{a b} Daniel McEneny (undated). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Servoss House". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=102427. Retrieved 2009-06-14. See also: "Accompanying six photos". http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=102326. 
21. ^ ^{a b} Robert T. Englert (June 2008). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Shelp, John, Cobblestone House". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=102811. Retrieved 2009-06-14. See also: "Accompanying seven photos". http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=102815. 
22. ^ ^{a b} Robert T. Englert (June 2002). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Skinner-Tinkham House". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=100453. Retrieved 2009-06-14. See also: "Accompanying six photos". http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=100455. 
23. ^ ^{a b} Larry E. Gobrecht (July 1986). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: United States Post Office, Albion, Orleans County / Albion Post Office". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=6753. Retrieved 2009-06-14.  See also: "Accompanying five photos". http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=6744. 
24. ^ ^{a b} Larry E. Gobrecht (December 1986). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: United States Post Office, Medina, New York / Medina Post Office". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=6760. Retrieved 2009-06-14.  See also: "Accompanying seven photos". http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=6759. 

External links

• Orleans County National Register listings at nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com