Geneseo Historic District

Geneseo's historic district in Livingston County, New York, enlarges an earlier Main Street district to take in most of the village's best-preserved older areas. It holds the commercial, religious and civic core along Main Street, ten residential streets to the east, two estates of the Wadsworth family (the Homestead and Hartford House) and the fifteen-acre Temple Hill Cemetery, established in 1807. Buildings date from the 1810s to the 1930s, and wood-frame houses predominate. Styles include Federal, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Italian Villa, Second Empire, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival. Individual streets show a consistent period: South and Second Streets hold early Federal and Greek Revival homes, Center Street is the most varied in use, and Oak Street, laid out in 1889, has the largest group of Queen Anne houses. Hartford House, a brick residence of about 1836, is among the more imposing buildings. The boundaries were drawn to leave out altered older structures and modern intrusions, leaving the village's most intact historic fabric.