Maple Avenue 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 Elmira,

Chemung County, New York Chemung County is a county in the southern tier of the U.S. state of New York. The population was 84,148 as of the 2020 census. Its county seat is Elmira. Its name is derived from a Delaware Indian village whose name meant "big horn". Chemun ...

. It encompasses 121

contributing building In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic distric ...

s and four contributing objects in a predominantly residential section of Elmira. It developed between about 1869 and 1940, and includes notable examples of

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 R ...

Second Empire Second Empire may refer to: * Second British Empire, used by some historians to describe the British Empire after 1783 * Second Bulgarian Empire (1185–1396) * Second French Empire (1852–1870) ** Second Empire architecture, an architectural styl ...

, Queen Anne,

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 archi ...

, and

American Craftsman American Craftsman is an American domestic architectural style, inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement, which included interior design, landscape design, applied arts, and decorative arts, beginning in the last years of the 19th century. Its ...

style architecture. Located in the district are the separately listed

John Brand Jr. House The John Brand Jr. House is a historic house located at 351 Maple Avenue in Elmira, Chemung County, New York. Description and history It was built in 1890, and is a large -story, Queen Anne–style dwelling. It features a large scale Pallad ...

John Brand Sr. House John Brand Sr. House is a historic home located at Elmira in Chemung County, New York. It was built about 1870 and is a large -story, Italianate-style dwelling with a 2-story wing. Also on the property is a concrete fountain basin with a repro ...

, and

Alexander Eustace House The Alexander Eustace House is a historic house located at 401 Maple Avenue in Elmira, New York, Elmira, which is in Chemung County, State of New York, New York. History The Alexander Eustace house was built in 1886 for lawyer Alexander Eustac ...

. Other notable buildings are the J.H. Harris House (1892), Samuel W. Clark House (c. 1869), James H. Clark House (c. 1869), and Horace W. Personius House (1913). ''Note:'' This includes an
''Accompanying photographs''
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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 2013.

References

Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Italianate architecture in New York (state) Second Empire architecture in New York (state) Queen Anne architecture in New York (state) Colonial Revival architecture in New York (state) Buildings and structures in Chemung County, New York National Register of Historic Places in Chemung County, New York {{ChemungCountyNY-NRHP-stub