Ironville Historic District

Ironville Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
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Location	Area surrounding Ironville including Furnace St. and Penfield Pond, Ironville, New York
Coordinates	43°55′17″N73°32′7″W / 43.92139°N 73.53528°W / 43.92139; -73.53528
Area	73 acres (30 ha)
Architectural style	Greek Revival
NRHP reference No.	74001237 [1]
Added to NRHP	December 27, 1974

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. ^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. ^[1]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
2. Doris Vanderlipp Manley (December 1973). National Register of Historic Places Registration: New York SP Ironville Historic District. National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved October 29, 2025. (Downloading may be slow.)

External links

• Penfield Homestead Museum in Ironville, NY