Two-story, three-bay frame residence with Colonial Revival style features, hip roof, single and paired double-hung sash windows with plain wood trim and louvred shutters, central entrance. Two-story, five-bay frame residence with Greek Revival style features, gabled roof, box cornice, wide frieze, two-over-two double-hung sash windows with plain trim, entrance with altered surround; early. Two-story, L-shaped frame residence with gable roof, cornices, double-hung sash windows with simple wood trim, small, front-.
Two-story, three-bay frame residence with Italianate features, hipped roof with wide eaves, double-hung sash windows with plain wood trim, hipped-roof porch, wrap-around paired buttresses and plinth with mesh; contributing to the clapboard and one-and-a-half story carriage barn. Two-story, three-bay frame residence with Colonial Revival features, gable roof, corner returns, narrow frieze, single and paired six-pane double-hung windows with plain wood trim and shutters shutters, central entrance with small, entrance porch with gates; single-story enclosed screened-in sun porch on south elevation; single story frame garage contributing. One-story five-bay frame residence with Colonial Revival features, five-bay wide dormer hipped roof, three-over-one double-hung sash windows with plain wood trim, central entry.
Two-story residence with three bays with Italianate style pulls, low-pitched hipped roof with wide projecting overhang, denticular cornice, two-over-two double-hung sash windows with mitered lintels with ogee-curved motif, projecting jamb .
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Significance
The relatively high level of architectural sophistication reflects Alfred's regional importance as a cultural and educational center in rural Allegany County. The district encompasses almost the entire village core and includes Alfred's finest, most intact examples of a variety of popular American styles, including Federal, Greek, Gothic, Octagonal, Italianate, Queen Anne/. Structures built between about 6:18 p.m. and the 1930s, reflect Alfred's development from a small settlement of Seventh Day Baptists seeking religious freedom to its prominence in the twentieth century.
The district takes on additional importance for the quality and quantity of architectural terracotta, especially. Alfred, once part of the Pultneyville estate of the Phelps and Gorham Purchase of 1788, was settled in 1807 by a group of people. Seventh-day Baptists who seek the freedom to observe the Sabbath from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday in strict observance of Old Testament tradition.
New York State founding families included the Crandalls, Greenes, Maxsons, Stillmans, Burdicks, Langworthys, Coons, and Allens. The first public office held by Crandall was that of road commissioner. He later served as town supervisor for two years and town clerk for three terms.
In addition to his active public service, he also established the first industry in the area, the manufacture of wooden buckets in Alfred Station. Alfred Station, a small village just northeast of Alfred, was also settled in 1807 by Seventh Day Baptists. Alfred Station never achieved the prominence and prosperity that Alfred did, although it was located on the Erie Railroad line (completed in 1851) and the state road from Hornell to the south.
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Alfred Historic District, Alfred, Allegany Co. Page 3 repeated in numerous structures during the second quarter of the nineteenth century. The single most important event was the establishment in 1836 of the Select School, from which Alfred University eventually emerged. The school's success during its early years necessitated the construction of an annex, built in 1841 on what is now West University Street.
The academy's trustees continued to acquire property and soon added 80 adjacent acres, which became the core of the nineteenth-century campus. At the same time "Jith the success of the Alfred Academy in the second quarter of the nineteenth century, and the village's commercial and industrial prosperity. Other typical features of the period. and style exhibited by the residences include wide friezes, exaggerated cornice returns, wide corner boards and trabeated entrances with recessed doorways flanked by side lights.
Two distinctive designs seen on many of Al d's Greek Revival style homes. 34;Jere introduced during the federal period on The Century. The first is the heavy molded entrance surround with corner blocks and a raised center panel. The second is the three-part window in the front facade, many of which are enclosed in a molded surround with corner blocks and a raised central panel, which repeats the entrance motif.
Typical attributes of the period and style displayed by the small frame structure include a full entablature supported by wide corner pilasters. It is located outside the district to the east on the Alfred University campus (East University Street) and can be proposed for National Register listing individually. A more traditional interpretation of the style is the Gothic (6 Ford Street, c. 1851), a boarcl-and-batten cottage with a steeply pitched cross-gable roof and characteristic, openwork. bargeboards under wide projecting overhangs. formerly a residence, currently an interdenominational chapel).
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A municipal building dating from the last quarter of the century is the Fire Hall (7 West University Street, circa 1890, Photo #36). Featuring decorative brickwork and a prominent clock tower, it is an outstanding example of the period and style and an important local landmark and community centre. An outstanding example of late nineteenth century Eclectic style commercial architecture is located at 4Lf North Main Street.
The front of the building, which was added to the Federal period building in 1880, has brick and terracotta decorations and a prominent tower, and serves as a prominent visual terminus to the northern end of the commercial core of Alfred. The two-story front porch combines features of the Romanesque style (brick parapet, frieze, and decorative panels) and the Eastlake style (spindle frieze of the upper course). The red tile roof and arch motif repeated in the arcaded porch and windows reflect the influence of the Spanish Revival style.
The turn of the twentieth century is a great advance and change in Alfred's educational institutions. Harris, head of the Celadon Terra Cotta Tile Company, and, in 1900, the State Board of Regents leased the pottery school. The second important event of the beginning of the twentieth century in the field of education was the establishment of the New York State School of Agriculture at Alfred (later called the State University College of Agriculture and Technology), (cmnpus is located on the hill . west of Nain Road opposite the Alfred University campus,) The School of Agriculture was established by law in 1908 and.
Alfred University also continued to prosper in the early twentieth century, but Alfred Academy did not. Alfred's only example of the Beaux-Arts style, it is the work of prominent New York architect Edward L. It is also a representative example of the community libraries sponsored by wealthy industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.
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- State Historic Preservation Officer Certification
Originally The Sun was a political partisan paper, but in 1896 it was purchased by a group of Young Republicans led by Frank A. Crumb edited and managed the paper until 1951; in the 1920s "laS recognized as one of the leading Republican newspapers in Allegany County. The company experienced financial difficulties after Crumb's departure, and in 1970 the last issue of the Sun was printed.
In 1973, the Twin Creek Publishing Company, then mayor of Alfred Alfred, Gary Horowitz, purchased the Sun Publishing Company and. Alfred continued to flourish throughout the second and third quarters of the twentieth century, largely due to the success of Alfred University, the College of Ceramics and the S.U.N.Y. Most modern developments took place on the outskirts of the village and on the two campuses, preserving the historic and architectural integrity of the village core.
Collectively, the structures in the historic district remain an important reminder of Alfred's development from a small Seventh Day Baptist agricultural settlement to a regionally important educational center and. He nominates Ihla property for inclusion in the National Register and certifies that it has been assessed in accordance with the legislation and procedures established by the Natlo I Park 8rvlce.
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The heavy dividing lines on the enclosed site maps A and B define the boundary of the Alfred Village Historic District. The line is dratffi to coincide with the legal hounards of the nominated properties, with the exception of the eight resources that own portions of the land owned by Alfred University;. Greene Block (24-26 North Main Stn,et) Carnegie Hall (2 North Main Street) Box of Books (l West t Universiti ty Street.
In each case, the district boundary is drawn to include only the immediate area associated with the nominated resource, as defined by extensions of the legal boundaries of adjacent properties. A line drawn from the southeast corner of 34 North Main Street to the northeast corner of 5 South Main Street defines the rear boundary of the Greene Block and Carnegie Hal1. The line drawn to include the Box of Books, the village green and 8 South Main Street is determined by the legal boundary of university-owned property.
A line defining the northern boundary of 6 Sayles Street, South Hall and Crandall Health Center extends westward from and parallel to the southern boundary of 4 Sayles Street. The boundary that comprised Terra Cotta extends northeast from and parallel to the southeast boundary of 60 Hain Street to Pine Street.
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