Greene Historic District

Greene's historic district covers roughly 130 properties at the center of a Chenango County village in New York. It takes in the main commercial blocks along Genesee Street, the oldest residential streets, and several landmark public buildings, including the Beaux Arts Moore Memorial Library, the Gothic Revival Zion Episcopal Church designed by Henry Congdon, and the Romanesque Revival Baptist Church. Houses range from Federal and Greek Revival examples of the 1820s to 1840s to Victorian and Colonial Revival homes, though most are modest vernacular versions of national styles. The village grew rapidly in the 1830s when the Chenango Canal reached it, bringing storehouses, hotels, small industries and Canal Street itself. Driscoll Avenue follows the old towpath and keeps simple warehouse and barn buildings. By mid-century Greene served a dairy-farming region exporting butter and cheese. The boundary excludes areas with heavy alteration, leaving only nine non-contributing buildings.