1816 FARMINGTON QUAKER MEETINGHOUSE MUSEUM

FARMINGTON, NY

September 14, 2019: Former Corn Hill Methodist Episcopal Church as seen from Lunsford Circle, Rochester, New York The former Corn Hill Methodist Episcopal Church and present-day End Time Deliverance Miracle Ministry is a longstanding landmark of the Corn Hill district of Rochester, New York whose rich history lies at the intersection of the two rather paradoxical halves of the neighborhood's identity - the favorite abode of Rochester's moneyed class, yet also the historic nucleus of the local African-American community - and serves as a testimony to locals' commitment to historic preservation, having been rebuilt after a devastating 1971 arson fire.

If you're an architecture buff like me, you can read <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/198134987@N03/53617592723">more about the church</a> at <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/198134987@N03/">Western New York Architecture Deep Cuts</a>: my other account where I go deeper into the weeds about these sorts of things. — September 14, 2019: Former Corn Hill Methodist Episcopal Church as seen from Lunsford Circle, Rochester, New York Credit: Carrotflower Productions International

The 1816 Farmington Quaker Meetinghouse Museum is a historic building located in Farmington, New York. It was originally built as a meetinghouse for the Quaker community in the area, and it has since been restored and converted into a museum. The building is a typical example of Quaker meetinghouses of the time, with its simple design and lack of ornamentation.

The museum contains exhibits that showcase the history of the Quaker community in Farmington, as well as the larger social and cultural context of the time. Visitors can see artifacts and documents that provide insight into the lives of Quakers in the early 19th century, including their beliefs, customs, and practices. The museum also features exhibits on the Underground Railroad, which played a significant role in the community's history.

In addition to its historical exhibits, the 1816 Farmington Quaker Meetinghouse Museum hosts a variety of events and programs throughout the year, including lectures, concerts, and community gatherings. The museum is open to the public and welcomes visitors from all backgrounds to learn about the important history of the Quaker community in Farmington and beyond.

1816 FARMINGTON QUAKER MEETINGHOUSE MUSEUM is a Uncategorized or General Museum in FARMINGTON NY. US MID #8403602092

The museum is classed as GMU (Uncategorized or General Museums). It comes under American Alliance of Museums (AAM) region: Mid-Atlantic (District of Columbia, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania). Total revenue from most recent IRS 990 Form: $ 132,292 from tax period 201212 (YYYYMM).

September 14, 2019: Daniel M. Flanigan and Anthony J. Miller Houses, Rochester, New York Illustrative of the Victorian-era architectural smorgasbord of Rochester, New York's historic Corn Hill neighborhood are the Daniel M. Flanigan <i>(left)</i> and Anthony J Miller <i>(right)</i> Houses on Atkinson Street. Although the precise dates of their construction, the particulars of their aesthetic style, and the identities of their early owners differ from each other, they each exemplify the neighborhood's original identity as longstanding haven for Rochester's wealthy elite as well as the commitment of its modern-day denizens to the continuing preservation of what is now the city's oldest and most intact residential historic district.

If you're an architecture buff like me, you can read <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/198134987@N03/53617592693">more about these stately homes</a> at <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/198134987@N03/">Western New York Architecture Deep Cuts</a>: my other account where I go deeper into the weeds about these sorts of things.

Daniel M. Flanigan and Anthony J. Miller Houses, Rochester, New York, September 2019 Illustrating the Victorian-era architectural smorgasbord of Rochester, New York's historic Corn Hill neighborhood in this September 2019 photo are the Daniel M. Flanigan <i>(left)</i> and Anthony J Miller <i>(right)</i> Houses, at 77 and 79 Atkinson Street respectively. Although the precise dates of their construction, the particulars of their aesthetic style, and the identities of their early owners differ from each other, they each exemplify the neighborhood's original identity as haven for Rochester's wealthy elite, who had been flocking to this gently sloping hilltop across from downtown since the golden age of the Erie Canal in the 1830s and '40s, as well as the commitment of its modern-day denizens to the continuing preservation of what is now the city's oldest and most intact residential historic district. The Flanigan House is the older of the two, constructed in 1884 and an excellent late-period example of Italianate architecture with its prominent vertical lines, narrow windows framed by pedimented stone lintels and sills, and shallow-pitched front-gabled roof with paired wooden brackets supporting the overhanging eaves. It served initially as home of Irish-born dry goods merchant Daniel M. Flanigan (born 1850), about whom relatively little is known despite his prominence in the local mercantile community as co-owner (with his brothers John and Mortimer) of Flanigan &amp; Co., a clothing and housewares retailer located on State Street at the present-day site of the Holiday Inn. The unmarried Flanigan lived in the house with his younger sister Nellie until they, and the business with them, relocated around 1894 to Paterson, New Jersey. The records of the Landmark Society of Western New York credit subsequent owner John Streb, an interior decorator by trade, with a thorough restoration of the house to its historic splendor in the late 1960s after decades of use as a scruffy boardinghouse. Next door is the Miller House, a Queen Anne beauty from 1895 with all the requisite architectural baubles: an asymmetrical façade, a handsome front porch of ample width and with a freewheeling Classical flavor to its decorative accoutrements (paired Tuscan columns support a dentillated entablature), and of course a stout, conically-roofed corner tower whose crowning finial is unfortunately invisible from this vantage point. Note also the extremely steep pitch of the gable above the central dormer, matching if not exceeding that of the hipped roof itself. Original owner Anthony J. Miller (1856-1932) was a local entrepreneur of notable versatility: trained as a shoemaker, he had transitioned to the hospitality business by the time this house was built, operating with several of his children an eponymous tavern and liquor store until the onset of Prohibition hastened his retirement. Anthony's widowed daughter Cora Russell was still living at 79 Atkinson upon the aforementioned Landmark Society's historic survey of the neighborhood in 1970; she would remain there, in a grand space replete with original Renaissance Revival furniture, fixtures, and artwork in pristine condition (&quot;like taking a step back into turn-of-the-century Rochester&quot;, to quote a feature article in the <i>Democrat and Chronicle</i>) until her own death thirteen years later.

Corn Hill Gazebo and Lunsford Circle, Rochester, New York, September 2019 With its lovely gingerbread-style woodwork and steep octagonal tent roof, the Corn Hill Gazebo is the central feature of the verdant Lunsford Circle Park, a 35,000-square-foot manicured green space at the intersection of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Greig, and Frederick Douglass Streets in the heart of the historic Corn Hill neighborhood of Rochester, New York. The versatile little shelter is a bandstand for a popular summer concert series, a beehive of activity during the annual Corn Hill Arts Festival, and at quieter times simply a pleasant respite for neighborhood residents. Originally known as Caledonia Square, Lunsford was among the earliest public spaces in the city, laid out in 1837 along with the other surrounding streets and lots. However, periodic renamings and redesigns have been a recurring feature of the park's history practically since the beginning: the first occurred in 1859, when it was given its current elliptical shape and the new moniker of Plymouth Park, in honor of the recently constructed avenue of the same name which now bisected it from southwest to northeast. However, the park's most complete and consequential overhaul was a work of preeminent landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. Olmsted had made a name for himself first as designer of Central Park in New York City and later for his visionary concept of interconnected systems of parks and tree-lined boulevards that he dubbed &quot;parkways&quot;: a model that he had pioneered a few decades earlier in nearby Buffalo, and of which Rochester's city fathers hoped for their own version when they summoned him in 1888 for what would ultimately be the final commission of his illustrious four-decade career. Olmsted's designs for the &quot;emerald necklace&quot; of Genesee Valley, Seneca, Maplewood, and Highland Parks typify his trademark aesthetic - expansive verdant spaces whose curved contours, subtle design details, extensive use of native flora, and intentional dearth of built elements sought to accentuate the natural features of the landscape - but he was responsible for establishing and revamping a number of the city's smaller parks as well. His plans for Plymouth Park were as simple as they were lovely: a six-spoke wheel of radial footpaths that converge on a central seating area. It remains the essence of the park's design today, with the exception of the gazebo, which was relocated here in 1979 after a century spent in the garden of the recently-lost-to-fire St. Joseph Catholic Church downtown; the culmination of yet another round of park renovations that also entailed the addition of new trees and branches and the repaving of the walkways. Coincidentally mirroring the change in the park's design was a change in Corn Hill's demographics: by the mid-20th century, what had once been the exclusive domain of the city's wealthy industrialist class became instead the epicenter of the local Black community, with nearby Clarissa Street - chock-a-block with soul food restaurants, neighborhood businesses, and above all, jazz clubs - being described as Rochester's own answer to Harlem. Subsequent decades saw the importance of the African-American presence of the neighborhood reflected in neighborhood nomenclature: the 1980 renaming of the northerly portion of Plymouth Avenue in honor of Frederick Douglass, the prominent civil rights leader, social reformer, and publisher who lived and worked in Rochester during the mid-19th century (the segment south of the park is no longer extant) was followed up six years later when, by decree of the city council, Plymouth Park itself was renamed in honor of the recently deceased Dr. Charles T. Lunsford (1891-1985), a luminary in both the local civil rights movement and the field of medicine. The first practicing African-American physician in the city, Dr. Lunsford was also historically notable for leading the charge to desegregate the University of Rochester Medical School, the employee facilities of the Eastman Kodak Company, and the local YMCA as well as helping to overturn the American Red Cross' prohibition against Black blood donors.

Hamilton Apartments as seen from Corn Hill Landing, Rochester, New York, September 2019 A September 2019 scene in Rochester, New York, looking from Corn Hill Landing - an upscale mixed-use development unveiled in 2000 and comprising apartments, shops, restaurants, and the riverfront parkland where this photo was taken - across the Genesee River into the adjacent neighborhood of South Wedge, where we see the Hamilton Apartments rising just left of center. Despite being showcased at the Whitney Museum of American Art as part of an exhibit on notable new trends in architecture and urban planning, the design of this 13-story, 200-unit, L-shaped high-rise tower exemplifies 1970s architecture at its most minimalist and utilitarian: all straight lines, right angles, and smooth planar surfaces, the river-facing side of the building (which seems to be the main façade, or at least of equal importance to the side facing Mount Hope Avenue) is a smooth-textured concrete wall, featureless save for its perforation by a regular pattern of windows set out in alternating columnar arrangements, first amply proportioned and then narrow and set high in the interior walls. In fact, the main work of exterior ornamentation - namely the patchwork of colored panels - is a latter-day addition to the design; the product of a 2010 renovation of the building by its new owners, Conifer Realty. Initially known as Genesee Gateway and later renamed River Park Commons, the building was designed by Stephen Whitney, a staff architect with the New York State Urban Development Corporation which was tasked with redeveloping the 35-acre site of a former State Barge Canal terminal into a massive urban renewal project of badly needed housing for low- and moderate-income tenants. In early 1970 commenced a labyrinthine tangle of negotiations involving the city council, the Urban Renewal Corporation, the Barge Canal, and the Lehigh Valley Railroad, the latter of which owned track that ran along the river through the site. However, the railroad's bankruptcy the following July gummed up the gears until 1972, when bankruptcy litigation was finally resolved and the transfer of the railroad right-of-way was finally permitted to go through. Shovels went in the ground in April 1973 to kick off the nearly two-year, $12 million construction process that comprised both the high-rise tower as well as a row of terraced townhomes that stretched for three blocks along the riverbank to the south, the latter of which were demolished in 2009. Together, those buildings comprised 402 of the 1,200 total units originally planned for the site, the remainder of which were never built due mostly to the financial woes that befell the Urban Development Corporation in the late '70s. The Hamilton is now privately owned but continues to be reserved for low-income residents, with rent charged on a sliding scale that's capped at 30% of the annual income of the individual householder.

Beer Can - Genesee Beer - 01, 12oz, Flat-top, Straight-side Genesee Beer - 01
12oz, Flat-top, Straight-side
&quot;Naturally More Refreshing&quot;
The Genesee Brewing Co
421 St. Paul St
Rochester, NY
U71-36

September 4, 2022: Fishing on Honeoye Lake, Richmond, New York A fisherman on a speedboat cruises Honeoye Lake on a murky afternoon, as seen from the boat launch at the State Marine Park on East Lake Road in the town of Richmond, New York.

Beer Can - Genesee Ale - 03, 12oz, Pull-tab, Straight-side Genesee 12 Horse Ale
&quot;Famous 12 Horse Ale&quot;
Genesee Brewing Co.
345 North St. Paul St.
Rochester, NY
U71-24

Lehigh Valley Depot in Hemlock NY This image developed from a glass negative at the Livingston County Historian's Office shows the rural train depot that once stood just north of the Hemlock Fair Grounds.

While freight trains would load up fertilizer, and building materials from Woodruff, Reed, &amp; Co.'s two warehouses nestled against the Hemlock Outlet, eager guests could take a few short steps from the train platform to J.H. Morton's Hotel. In 1902 the Morton Hotel was advertised as &quot;First-class accommodations headquarters for hunters and fishermen. All kinds of liquors and cigars sold.&quot;

While the Hemlock Fair would attract crowds of visitors every fall, the abundance of nature in Hemlock would bring outdoorsmen to town all year long.

Recommended Citation: Livingston County Historian's Office, New York

For more information contact us at the Livingston County Historian’s Office at:
<a href="https://www.livingstoncounty.us/162/County-Historian" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.livingstoncounty.us/162/County-Historian</a>

Contact 1816 FARMINGTON QUAKER MEETINGHOUSE MUSEUM

1816 FARMINGTON QUAKER MEETINGHOUSE MUSEUM
PO BOX 25053
FARMINGTON
NY
14425-0053

Disclaimer: please note this database is maintained by volunteers and whilst we endeavour to do our best, we cannot guarantee the accuracy of the listing.

If you notice any errors or omissions in the listing, please let us know in the comments section below.

< COMEDY HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION FRIENDS OF THE AMERICAN MERCHANT MARINE MUSEUM INC >

Find more FARMINGTON NY Museums

What 3 Words

///pill.newlyweds.congestion. Near Victor, New York

Nearby Museums

1816 FARMINGTON QUAKER MEETINGHOUSE MUSEUM

Map of 1816 FARMINGTON QUAKER MEETINGHOUSE MUSEUM

1816 FARMINGTON QUAKER MEETINGHOUSE MUSEUM Information

MID #	8403602092
Name	1816 FARMINGTON QUAKER MEETINGHOUSE MUSEUM
Alternate Name
Classification	Uncategorized or General Museums, , Mid-Atlantic
Federal Employer Identification Number (EIN)	270586244
NTEECC	A54
Tax period of the latest return filed (YYYYMM)	201212
INCOME	132,292
REVENUE	132,292
LAT/LONG	42.974412, -77.349598
CODES	FIPS State Code: 36 FIPS County Code: 069 US Census Tract: 050201 US Census Block: 3041