Pittsford Village Historic District (Boundary Increase)

Pittsford's historic district gathers about 130 properties around the village's commercial core southeast of Rochester, New York. Most are wood-frame houses, along with three churches, two schools and many carriage houses and garages built between the 1810s and 1930s. Monroe Avenue, the old toll road to Rochester, holds the most distinguished dwellings, while Church Street has the highest concentration of early to mid-nineteenth century buildings, including a cobblestone schoolhouse. The styles range from Federal and Greek Revival through Gothic Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne and Eastlake to Colonial Revival and Bungalow. Brick buildings from the Federal period date to the prosperity that followed the routing of the Erie Canal. Later houses reflect the village's turn into a commuter suburb of Rochester. The central Four Corners area was left out because of extensive alterations. The district was recognized for the quality and variety of its architecture and for what it shows about two stages of local prosperity.