George and Addison Wheeler House, also known as Old Place, is a historic home located at East Bloomfield in

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

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–style home was built in two sections in about 1818 and 1840. The 2-story main block from 1840 features a temple front with a massive, pedimented portico. Behind it stands a -story wing that was the original

saltbox A saltbox house is a gable-roofed residential structure that is typically two stories in the front and one in the rear. It is a traditional New England style of home, originally timber framed, which takes its name from its resemblance to a woode ...

-style home constructed about 1818. Also on the property is a 19th-century barn /

carriage house A carriage house, also called a remise or coach house, is an outbuilding which was originally built to house horse-drawn carriages and the related tack. In Great Britain the farm building was called a cart shed. These typically were open ...

and a small family

cemetery A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a buri ...

. Abandoned for a generation, it was restored in the late 1940s by William and Marie Houghton. It was listed on the

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in 2005.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Houses completed in 1840 Houses in Ontario County, New York National Register of Historic Places in Ontario County, New York {{OntarioCountyNY-NRHP-stub