Pulaski Village Historic District

Pulaski Village Historic District preserves the residential and commercial heart of a small Oswego County village settled in 1804. The rectangular district runs three blocks by two and follows the militia drill ground surveyed in 1837, with parks at the north and south ends and a commercial center between them. It holds thirty-nine contributing elements, including a courthouse, two churches, seven houses and twenty-six commercial buildings. A fire in 1881 destroyed much of the business area, and merchants rebuilt within a year, mostly in brick Italianate style. Later buildings followed the same character. Architect Zina D. Stevens designed the 1859 Greek Revival courthouse, which encases an earlier 1819 building. Archimedes Russell designed the Pulaski National Bank and the Masonic Temple, and Milo Folley designed the Art Deco Kallet Theater of 1938. Pulaski was the seat of government for eastern Oswego County and a center for farming and lumbering, and its intact streetscape reflects that history.