Main Street Historic District (Boundary Increase)

Geneseo's historic district was enlarged to take in 235 more properties along ten residential streets east of Main Street, bringing the total to 308 properties on about 600 acres. The additions include Center, Chestnut, Elm, Oak, Prospect, Second and South Streets, along with the Hartford House, a second Wadsworth family estate at the north end of Main Street, and the nineteenth-century Temple Hill Cemetery. Buildings date from the 1810s to the 1930s, and wood frame houses predominate. Styles run from Federal and Greek Revival through Italianate, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival. Each street reflects a stage of the village's growth: South and Second Streets hold early Federal and Greek Revival homes, Center Street is the most varied in use, and Oak Street has the strongest grouping of Queen Anne houses. Other buildings include a cobblestone former schoolhouse, now a county museum, a library and two churches. The boundaries exclude heavily altered older houses and modern intrusions. Together, 414 contributing features show the village's early nineteenth to early twentieth century development.