Pulteney Square Historic District is a national
historic district
A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...
located at
Hammondsport
Hammondsport is a village at the south end of Keuka Lake, in Steuben County, one of the Finger Lakes of New York, United States.
The Village of Hammondsport is in the Town of Urbana and is northeast of Bath.
History
Lazarus Hammond founded ...
in
Steuben County, New York
Steuben County (stu-BEN) is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 93,584. Its county seat is Bath. Its name is in honor of Baron von Steuben, a Prussian general who fought on the American ...
. The district includes 15 contributing buildings, one contributing structure (bandstand), one contributing site (
village green
A village green is a commons, common open area within a village or other settlement. Historically, a village green was common pasture, grassland with a pond for watering cattle and other stock, often at the edge of a rural settlement, used for ...
), and three contributing secondary buildings. The structures are clustered around Pulteney Square, a village green roughly 140 feet square, and date from the 1820s to 1920s.
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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 v ...
in 1999.
Gallery
File:Pulteney Square Historic District Apr 11.JPG, Pulteney Square Historic District, April 2011
References
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Queen Anne architecture in New York (state)
Historic districts in Steuben County, New York
National Register of Historic Places in Steuben County, New York
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