{"nrhp_refnum":"93001225","name":"Honeoye Falls Village Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Lower Mill","US Post Office--Honeoye Falls","St. John's"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly, jct. of Main, Monroe and Ontario Sts. and adjacent areas","address_restricted":false,"city":"Honeoye Falls","county":"Monroe County","state":"NY","lat":42.94801946700005,"lon":-77.5902750101817,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-11-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district of 217 contributing and 35 noncontributing resources covering the historic core of the village of Honeoye Falls, Monroe County, New York, about 130 acres around Honeoye Creek. It includes residential, commercial, industrial, religious, civic and educational buildings dating from about 1825 to about 1940.","why_significant":"The form describes the district as locally significant, with a commercial core, mills, churches and civic buildings that retain high integrity of design, setting, feeling, association, materials and craftsmanship. The village grew along falls in Honeoye Creek as an industrial community, and its streets hold intact Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Second Empire and Queen Anne buildings. The excerpt does not give the criteria or the formal period of significance.","narrative":"Honeoye Falls Village Historic District covers the old center of a village in southeast Monroe County, about 15 miles south of Rochester. Settlement began in 1791, when miller Zebulon Norton built a grist mill beside the upper falls of Honeoye Creek. The district takes in roughly 130 acres and 217 contributing resources, among them stone mills, brick and frame commercial blocks around the Four Corners, churches, a village hall, a 1927 high school and many houses with their carriage houses and barns. Buildings range from Federal and Greek Revival structures of the 1820s and 1840s to Italianate, Second Empire and Queen Anne designs of the late nineteenth century. Examples include the four-story Upper Mill, the Lower Mill, the Greek Revival Presbyterian Church of 1841 and Ontario Street's Queen Anne houses. The district was listed for its local importance as a well-preserved industrial village whose streetscapes retain a high degree of integrity, while newer intrusions were left outside the boundary.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Local builders Martin Pierce (9 York Street, ca.1842) and Levi Hill (Queen Anne houses on Ontario Street, 1890s) are named; no single architect is given for the district.","architectural_style":"Early Republic/Federal, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, Queen Anne, Bungalow and Craftsman","criteria":[],"status_note":"The district is described as retaining a high level of integrity, and its historic functions largely continue today, including dwellings, shops, government buildings, schools and churches.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:50.045393-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/93001225.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93001225/8a6c40a950-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93001225/8a6c40a950-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Erdrwife","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Masonic_Temple_Honeoye_Falls,_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Erdrwife</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Masonic_Temple_Honeoye_Falls,_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318846","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeoye_Falls_Village_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5893232"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/monroe-county/honeoye-falls-village-historic-district-93001225/"}