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
Area	73 acres (30 ha)
Architectural style	Greek Revival
NRHP reference No.	74001237
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

^ ^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".

External links

Penfield Homestead Museum in Ironville, NY

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.

[nrhpinv_ny-2] 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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