Penfield Road Historic District

Penfield Road Historic District is a 13-acre neighborhood east of the hamlet center of Penfield, New York. It holds 14 contributing buildings, including five nineteenth-century farmhouses on large lots, an early church, and two twentieth-century Colonial Revival houses, one of them a 1937 pre-cut kit house. The earliest building is the Federal-style Henry Fellows House of 1816, later given Neo-classical details. The First Baptist Church, a Greek Revival temple-form building dating from 1839, has a pedimented front and a bell tower. Italianate examples include the 1875 brick Southworth House with its cupola, described as among the finest in the area. The district was listed for architecture because the houses keep a high degree of integrity and show how owners updated homes with later styles. The grounds, with mature trees and a mid-nineteenth-century barn, recall the farms that gave way to suburban development after the 1940s.