Murray Street Historic District

Murray Street in Mount Morris, Livingston County, holds a compact group of sixteen middle-class houses between Stanley and Eagle Streets, one block west of Main Street. Built between about 1820 and 1920, the frame and brick dwellings are similar in scale, spacing and setback, and are tied together by mature trees, continuous sidewalks and early twentieth-century street lamps. Styles run from Greek Revival and Italianate to Second Empire, Queen Anne and Foursquare, mostly in modest vernacular forms. Six contributing carriage houses and garages remain, along with a stone carriage step and a cast-iron hitching post. The house at 47 Murray Street, from 1872, was designed by Anna Rockfellow, an MIT graduate who studied in France; its mansard roof reflects French influence. Most of the surrounding historic neighborhood has lost integrity, so this block is one of only two small concentrations of intact dwellings. It was listed for its architecture and for illustrating the village's growth through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.