Ironville Historic District | |
Nrhp Type: | hd |
Nocat: | yes |
Location: | Area surrounding Ironville including Furnace St. and Penfield Pond, Ironville, New York |
Coordinates: | 43.9214°N -73.5353°W |
Architecture: | Greek Revival |
Added: | December 27, 1974 |
Area: | 73acres |
Refnum: | 74001237 |
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.[1]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.