Wyoming Village Historic District

Wyoming village in western New York grew from a settlement begun in 1809 by Silas Newell, a New England migrant, and was laid out in a T-shape around a small triangular green. The historic district takes in about seventy structures along Main and Academy Streets, including an 1838 inn, a turn-of-the-century bank, the 1830 Presbyterian Church, Federal and Greek Revival houses, and later Victorian and Gothic cottages and churches. Middlebury Academy, an early brick landmark, drew students from across the state and supported the village economy through the 1860s. Around 1900 the family at nearby "Hillside" took an active interest in village life. Their gifts in 1902 were the brick Fire Tower and a French provincial style Village Hall. Visitors to the family included suffrage leaders such as Susan B. Anthony. The nomination presents the village as a rural place where plain vernacular building and wider cultural influences developed side by side.