Ironville Historic District
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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 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| 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]
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- Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York
- Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in New York
- Historic house museums in New York
- Museums in Essex County, New York
- National Register of Historic Places in Essex County, New York
- Essex County, New York Registered Historic Place stubs
