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Ironville Historic District

Coordinates: 43°55′17″N 73°32′7″W / 43.92139°N 73.53528°W / 43.92139; -73.53528
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Ironville Historic District
Ironville Historic District is located in New York
Ironville Historic District
Ironville Historic District is located in the United States
Ironville Historic District
LocationArea surrounding Ironville including Furnace St. and Penfield Pond, Ironville, New York
Coordinates43°55′17″N 73°32′7″W / 43.92139°N 73.53528°W / 43.92139; -73.53528
Area73 acres (30 ha)
Architectural styleGreek Revival
NRHP reference No.74001237[1]
Added to NRHPDecember 27, 1974

Ironville Historic District is a national historic district located at Ironville in Essex County, New York. The district contains 12 contributing buildings. It encompasses the area associated with a once thriving iron works. Almost nothing remains of the iron works itself. The remaining buildings consists of modest wooden dwellings including the Penfield Homestead (1828; now a museum), boarding house (1827), Congregational Church (1842), commercial building / grange hall (1870s), and cemetery. Ironville is known as the "Birthplace of the Electrical Age", being the site of the first industrial application of electricity in the United States.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ Doris Vanderlipp Manley (December 1973). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Ironville Historic District". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved July 14, 2010. See also: "Accompanying five photos".
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