Pittsford Village Historic District

Pittsford Village Historic District covers roughly 57 acres of mostly residential streets in a village just southeast of Rochester, New York. It contains 131 properties, including about 120 contributing dwellings, three churches, two schools and many carriage houses and garages, dating from the 1810s to the 1930s. The busy Four Corners commercial center is excluded because alterations have erased its historic character. The buildings show a wide range of American styles, from Federal and Greek Revival to Queen Anne, Eastlake and Colonial Revival, mostly in wood but with notable early masonry examples, including a cobblestone schoolhouse. Monroe Avenue holds the most distinguished houses, while Church Street has the oldest concentration. The district matters for the quality of its architecture and for what it shows about the village's growth: first as a commercial center beside the Erie Canal, then as a comfortable residential suburb of Rochester.