Ironville Historic District

Ironville Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

Location	Area surrounding Ironville including Furnace St. and Penfield Pond, Ironville, New York
Coordinates	43°55′17″N 73°32′7″W / 43.92139°N 73.53528°W / 43.92139; -73.53528Coordinates: 43°55′17″N 73°32′7″W / 43.92139°N 73.53528°W / 43.92139; -73.53528
Area	73 acres (30 ha)
Architectural style	Greek Revival
NRHP Reference #	74001237^[1]
Added to NRHP	December 27, 1974

Ironville Historic District is a national historic district located at Ironville in Essex County, New York. The district contains 12 contributing buildings. It encompasses the area associated with a once thriving iron works. Almost nothing remains of the iron works itself. The remaining buildings consists of modest wooden dwellings including the Penfield Homestead (1828; now a museum), boarding house (1827), Congregational Church (1842), commercial building / grange hall (1870s), and cemetery. Ironville is known as the "Birthplace of the Electrical Age", being the site of the first industrial application of electricity in the United States.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.^[1]

References

1 2 Staff (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ Doris Vanderlipp Manley (December 1973). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Ironville Historic District". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2010-07-14. See also: "Accompanying five photos".

External links

Penfield Homestead Museum in Ironville, NY

U.S. National Register of Historic Places in New York

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