Canandaigua Historic District is a national historic district located at

Canandaigua Canandaigua (; ''Utaʼnaráhkhwaʼ'' in Tuscarora) is a city in Ontario County, New York, United States. Its population was 10,545 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Ontario County; some administrative offices are at the county compl ...

Ontario County, New York Ontario County is a county in the U.S. State of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 112,458. The county seat is Canandaigua. Ontario County is part of the Rochester, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area. In 2006, ''Progressive ...

. The district includes 354 residential, commercial, religious, and civic properties (338 contributing) that constitute the historic core of Canandaigua. It incorporates the North Main Street Historic District. The structures date from the 1810s to 1930s and contains a number of distinctive buildings reflecting a variety of architectural styles including

Greek Revival The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but a ...

Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian ...

Colonial Revival The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture. The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which reawakened Americans to the archit ...

. The Ontario County Courthouse is located within the district boundaries. ''See also:'' Located in the district is the separately listed former

United States Post Office The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service, is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the ...

. It was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...

in 1984. In 2016, an isolated area of 68 additional properties was added to the district after they were found to be sufficiently historic.

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Canandaigua 027 Canandaigua Historic District.jpg, Main Street, Canandaigua, NY First Congregational Church Canandaigua Historic District Jul 09.jpg, First Congregational Church, July 2009 Main Street Canandaigua Historic District Jul 09.jpg, Main Street, July 2009 Canandaigua City Hall Jul 09.jpg, Canandaigua City Hall, July 2009

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Canandaigua Historic District pdf
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Colonial Revival architecture in New York (state) Greek Revival architecture in New York (state) Italianate architecture in New York (state) Historic districts in Ontario County, New York Canandaigua, New York National Register of Historic Places in Ontario County, New York {{OntarioCountyNY-NRHP-stub