Honeoye Falls Village Historic District

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.