Stephen Phelps House

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Stephen Phelps House
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Location 2701 Penfield Rd., Penfield, New York
Coordinates 43°7′39″N77°23′32″W / 43.12750°N 77.39222°W / 43.12750; -77.39222 Coordinates: 43°7′39″N77°23′32″W / 43.12750°N 77.39222°W / 43.12750; -77.39222
Area 40 acres (16 ha)
Built 1814
Architectural style Federal
NRHP reference # 94001635 [1]
Added to NRHP February 02, 1995

The Stephen Phelps House is a historic home located at Penfield in Monroe County, New York. It is a representative example of the vernacular Federal style of architecture from the settlement period. The residence, constructed between 1814 and 1817, is the earliest intact dwelling in the town of Penfield. The frame building consists of a two-story, five bay, center entrance main block with smaller frame wings. [2]

Penfield, New York Town in New York, United States

Penfield is a town in Monroe County, New York, United States. The population was 36,242 at the 2010 census.

Monroe County, New York county in New York, United States

Monroe County is a county in the western portion of the state of New York, in the United States. The county is along Lake Ontario's southern shore. As of 2017, Monroe County's population was 747,642. Its county seat is the city of Rochester. The county is named after James Monroe, the fifth President of the United States. Monroe County is part of the Rochester, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Federal architecture architectural style

Federal-style architecture is the name for the classicizing architecture built in the newly founded United States between c. 1780 and 1830, and particularly from 1785 to 1815. This style shares its name with its era, the Federalist Era. The name Federal style is also used in association with furniture design in the United States of the same time period. The style broadly corresponds to the classicism of Biedermeier style in the German-speaking lands, Regency architecture in Britain and to the French Empire style.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. [1]

National Register of Historic Places federal list of historic sites in the United States

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