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]
Ironville Historic District | |
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| Location | Area surrounding Ironville including Furnace St. and Penfield Pond, Ironville, New York |
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| Coordinates | 43°55′17″N 73°32′7″W / 43.92139°N 73.53528°W |
| Area | 73 acres (30 ha) |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 74001237[1] |
| Added to NRHP | December 27, 1974 |
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[1]
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- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ 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 July 14, 2010. See also: "Accompanying five photos".
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