Map of New York highlighting Orleans County

This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...

Orleans County, New York Orleans County is a county in the western part of the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 40,343. The county seat is Albion. The county received its name at the insistence of Nehemiah Ingersoll though historians ...

. The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all showing latitude and longitude coordinates below) may be seen in a map by clicking on "Map of all coordinates". Two listings, the

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and the Cobblestone Historic District, are further designated a

National Historic Landmark A National Historic Landmark (NHL) is a building, district, object, site, or structure that is officially recognized by the United States government for its outstanding historical significance. Only some 2,500 (~3%) of over 90,000 places listed ...

. There are currently 29 listings in the county, the fourth fewest in the state after Schuyler County (19), Hamilton County (22) and Genesee County (23). Seven of the listings are

historic districts A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from cer ...

, including Mount Albion Cemetery ( Millville Cemetery is classified as a site). The remaining 20 are individual buildings. No

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in the county are yet listed on the National Register.

Overview

Of the 20 buildings, at least 10 have been used as dwellings at some point in their history. Two Skinner-Tinkham House and Cobblestone Inn of those were originally inns that have since become residences. The

Tousley-Church House The Tousley-Church House is located on North Main Street (New York State Route 98) in Albion, New York, United States. It is a brick house in the Greek Revival architectural style built in two different stages in the mid-19th century. It shows t ...

was later converted into the local Daughters of the American Revolution chapter offices.''See also:'' The four conventional historic districtsExcluding

Mt. Albion Cemetery Mount Albion Cemetery is located on New York State Route 31 in the Town of Albion, New York, United States, east of the village of Albion, which owns and operates it. It is a rural cemetery established in the 1840s on a glacial drumlin. From i ...

. all include some residential properties as well among their

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. Three other buildings—the Albion and

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post offices and the

Medina Armory The Medina Armory is located on Pearl Street in Medina, New York, United States. It is a large stone building constructed at the beginning of the 20th century. State architect George Heins designed it for what was at the time the 29th Separate Com ...

—are government buildings. The armory is now used by the local

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. No commercial buildings in Orleans County are individually listed on the Register. Nor are any religious buildings, although seven churches contribute to the

Orleans County Courthouse Historic District The Orleans County Courthouse Historic District is one of two located in downtown Albion, New York, United States. Centered on Courthouse Square, it includes many significant buildings in the village, such as its post office and churches from sev ...

''See also:'' and one to the Cobblestone Historic District. No educational buildings were listed on their own until 2017, when the Gaines District No. 2 Cobblestone Schoolhouse was listed; however, the Cobblestone Historic District includes an old

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among its contributing properties. In the five districts, there are 135 buildings on . Most of that acreage is accounted for by

, the largest listing in the county at . The Cobblestone Historic District, with three buildings on two discontiguous plots totaling three-quarters of an acre (3,000 m²), is the smallest district and the smallest National Historic Landmark District in New York. The other three districts are in the downtowns of Medina and Albion, the largest settlements in the county. The two Albion districts abut each other, with the southerly being characterized by the public buildings, churches and residences around the county courthouse while the northerly is primarily commercial. Medina's Main Street Historic District is almost all commercial property. All but three of the buildings (and one structureA small park within the

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in Albion, built on the site of a building that burned.) within the historic districts are considered

. None of the contributing properties are themselves listed individually on the Register. However, the Albion post office, within the bounds of the county courthouse historic district, is not considered a contributing property to it despite later being listed on the Register, since it was built two decades after the district's period of significance.

Listings county-wide

Notes

References

External links

Orleans County National Register listings
at nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com {{National Register of Historic Places in New York Orleans County Orleans County, New York *