Pultneyville Historic District

Pultneyville is a small hamlet on the south shore of Lake Ontario, surrounded by fruit and dairy farms. Its historic district takes in thirty-five properties along parts of Lake Road and Jay Street, including Mill and Washington Streets, across about thirty-seven acres. Most buildings are modest to fairly sophisticated Federal and Greek Revival frame houses from about 1810 to 1850, many on large landscaped lots with nineteenth-century outbuildings. Standouts include the cobblestone Horatio Nelson Throop House of about 1832, the Washington Throop House of about 1828, an Italianate brick house of about 1850, and a Second Empire brick mansion of the 1860s. Later structures include a former hotel from about 1887 and a former fire station from about 1890. The district was recognized because these buildings reflect the community's early prosperity as a Great Lakes shipping port and market for local farmers. The commercial and religious center west of the district lost its architectural integrity and was left out.