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Ironville Historic District

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Ironville Historic District is a national historic district at Ironville in Essex County, New York, encompassing twelve contributing buildings associated with a once-thriving iron works of which almost nothing else remains. Its surviving structures include the Penfield Homestead of 1828, now a museum, a boarding house of 1827, a Congregational church of 1842, and a commercial building or grange hall from the 1870s, along with a cemetery. Ironville is known as the birthplace of the electrical age, as the site of the first industrial application of electricity in the United States, and the district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Building TypeSourced to the subject's own account
Historic house 2
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
New York, United States 3
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)Sourced to the subject's own account
House 2
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House, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

In Style

Greek Revival Architecture, Styles and Movements
Source Ironville Historic District (Wikipedia)

Uses Element

Timber, Architectural Materials
Source Ironville Historic District (Wikipedia)
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Sources
1. Ironville Historic District (Wikipedia)
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    Ironville Historic District is a national historic district at Ironville in Essex County, New York, encompassing twelve contributing buildings associated with a once-thriving iron works of which almost nothing else remains. Its surviving structures include the Penfield Homestead of 1828, now a museum, a boarding house of 1827, a Congregational church of 1842, and a commercial building or grange hall from the 1870s, along with a cemetery. Ironville is known as the birthplace of the electrical age, as the site of the first industrial application of electricity in the United States, and the district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
  • In Style: Greek Revival Architecture, Infobox, architecture
    architecture: Greek Revival
  • Uses Element: Timber, Wikipedia lead
    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.
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2. Ironville Historic District (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Historic house)
Quote, Wikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Historic house)
Wikidata item Q6073317, instance of (P31): historic house
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3. Ironville Historic District (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement (EntityId 394024): New York, United States
Quote, Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement (EntityId 394024): New York, United States
Wikidata item Q6073317, property P131/P17 (location): New York, United States
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Wikidata: Ironville Historic District
Wikidata Q6073317, class allow-list match (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926 resolve_missing)View the Source
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