Genesee Country Village and Museum
Tuesday, June 16, 2015
About the Village and Museum
The Genesee Country Village and Museum is a 19th-century living history museum covering more than 600 acres (2.4 km2) located in small hamlet of Mumford, New York, about 20 miles (32 km) from Rochester, New York, USA. On the museum property is the 19th-century village (The Historic Village), the John L. Wehle Gallery of Sporting Art, the Genesee Country Nature Center, the Carriage Museum, the Silver Baseball Park and the Heirloom Gardens. The facility offers numerous special events and classes throughout the year.
Event Information
Genesee Country Village and Museum
When?
Tuesday, Jun 16, 2015, 09:00 AM
Where?
Genesee Country Village & Museum, Flint Hill Road, Mumford, NY, United States
8:55 Leave Fyle Elementary
9:30 Arrive at GCVM
9:45 Begin tour
11:15-11:45 Lunch
11:45-12:30 Tour 2
12:45 Gather, depart GCVM
1:30 Arrive at Fyle
Hyde House
In 1848, Orson Squire Fowler, a native of the Genesee Country village of Cohocton, published A Home for All, or a New, Cheap, Convenient, and Superior Mode of Building in which he announced that the octagon house, with its eight sides, enclosed more space than a square one with equal wall space. The octagonal form had been used in public buildings in the past, but now as a concept for domestic architecture, it had a dedicated and convincing champion
Hamilton House
John Hamilton arrived in the Southern Tier town of Campbell, N.Y., in 1843 as a shoemaker. But by 1870, Hamilton was the owner of tanneries, a leading figure in his community and proud possessor of a grand new house.
Livingston-Backus House and Garden
One of the entrepreneurs who fashioned a fortune from milling, banking and speculative ventures in Rochester was James Livingston, a descendant of an old Hudson River family. In 1827, Livingston built one of the first grand mansions in Rochester's Third Ward, soon to be full of other columned monuments to their newly wealthy owners.