Guided Tours of The "Victorian Homes Experience", Elmira, NY
Victorian Home tours, 7 Days a week!
Buses and groups welcomed! Elmira, NY. Finger Lakes Region. 25 years experience tour the national historic district. Mark Twain's summer home town. Elmira, NY
Things to do and see on a budget.
Victorian homes in our amazing neighborhood!
107 Grove upper porch circa 1898 The "Arthur Clinton House" Currently SALE PENDING!
1/18/12 Mr. Arthur Clinton
Arthur clinton President of Barker, Rose, & Clinton (formerly Gray). BORN 1856 Newark Valley, N.Y.
1883 he started a lumber manufacturing business in Galeton, PA. Galeton is and was a very rural Pennsylvania town of lumberjacks. more to come!
Click here to see the interior of the Arthur Clinton Home
BELOW Restoration in progress.
Plan your Victorian Experience Tour & Stay.
While visiting Elmira, NY, consider staying at www.ElmirasPaintedLady.com located in the "Near Westside Neighborhood"
Supporting Finger Lakes Adventure Tourism
ONE hour driver from Hammonsport, Ithaca, Binghamton NY.
THIRTY minute driver from Corning, Watkins Glen NY.
TEN minute drive from Big Flats, Horsheads NY.
ONLY a four hour drive from New York City!
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Welcome to the Near Westside Neighborhood 
Come in and visit our site of Victorian Homes in our neighborhood. See all homes in our historic district by OUR Streets and Pictures
Victorian Tours and information, PRIVATE, GROUP & BUS TOURS welcomed: Victorian Homes & Churches. Victorian Architecture. National historic district . "Near Westside Neighborhood" Elmira, NY. Come for a tour. Stay for a VISIT!
Visit historic locations such as a restored 1870 carriage house and MORE!
After the tour ENJOY 10% OFF at Barb's Soup's ON Cafe'
Enjoy our High Victorian Homes and web site.
The "Arthur Clinton House"
Click here to see the interior of the Arthur Clinton Home
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The Near Westside Neighborhood nationally registered High Victorian historic district.
Our national historic district neighborhood, the "Near Westside Neighborhood"
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present." 
Take a guided tour of our historic district. Visit inside High Victorian homes, Gothic Churches, restored carriage house, and more!
Click HERE to Visit the Chemung Chamber of Commerce website here
Come in and visit our site of Victorian Homes in our neighborhood. See all homes in our historic district by streets and pictures
Historic Elmira NY located in the Southern Finger Lakes Region
Near Westside Neighborhood
Nationally Registered Historic District 
Second Empire Style
VICTORIAN HOMES are decorated both inside, and out, so that the homes can be for everyone's enjoyment!
Our national historic Elmira NY neighborhood.
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One of four Civil War Barracks from Elmira, NY's Civil War Prison Camp "Helmira" Ken Burns PBS
Our historic homes by streets CLICK HERE
Near Westside Neighborhood
Located in beautiful upstate New York’s Finger Lakes region is ELMIRA NY.
Elmira NY Downtown "Main Street USA"
Aerial view of the Near Westside Neighborhood.
Photo courtosey of James Aber. The City of Elmira NY has five bridges crossing the beautiful Chemung River
Near Westside Neighborhood
Elmira's City Hall freeze
click here to see photos of our historic district homes by streets.
The concept of a Historic District for the entire Near Westside Neighborhood was first conceived in 1978.
The "Near Westside Neighborhood". To see our historic homes by streetsclick here.
TOUR INFORMATION
We can customize tours
to your individual and group needs!
Great gift packages!
Samuel Draper tour guide and director, shooting billiards with "Mark Twain" at the Painted Lady
www.ElmirasPaintedLady.com billiard room
"An Elmira Connection"
An adaptation and re-enactment of Mark Twain's "A True Story"
Aunt Rachel (Ethel Stroman) & Tour guide Samuel Draper
"A True Story". Mark Twain and Aunt Rachel, the cook at Quarry Farm, were sitting on the farmhouse porch early one summer evening sometime around the 1870's, when he happened to ask her is she'd had any troouble during her life of 60 years.
Ethel Stroman becomes Aunt Rachel, as Mark Twain, (Gary Wilson), writes down her life story.
The Park Church click here for Restoration VIDEO
Mark, Tom, Becky, at Park Church, Elmira, NY
Eric Lindsey potraying Samuel L. Clemons's "Mark Twain"
Samuel Draper
Would like to join me in Victorian urban adventure touring inside some of Elmira's historic homes and sites?
Come explore with me 
Click here for further TOUR DETAILS and charges Take a walk, See our down-town architecture, have lunch at several neighborhood restaurants and pubs. Visit the second floor FREE "Mark Twain Hotel Museum" open 7 am till 9 pm seven days a week.
Schedule a walking tour while visiting the Finger Lakes area, phone 607-732-1436. If we are not in please leave a message. Long distance calls can only be returned collect. Or e-mail us at HistoricNearWestside@yahoo.com for more information.
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Near Westside Neighborhood
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Historic Near Westside supports local and regional tourism, historic districts, sites, museums, and events of the greater Western New York Finger Lakes Region. Including Western New York State, New York City, Northern Tier of Pennsylvania, and all states beyond and Canada. The HistoricNearWestside.com of Elmira, New York mission is to research, preserve, and share Elmira's rich heritage in a manner that honors the past, builds a bridge between generations, and leaves a legacy for the future.
Achieve
active advocacy, participation in community planning, innovative educational programs, the preservation of properties.
Purpose
of the www.HistoricNearWestside.com is to serve its community. It does that through efforts to beautify the neighborhood; to encourage historic preservation and property maintenance; to promote appropriate business development, to fight crime, and to protect and enhance Elmira's unique urban ambiance.
Goals
The HistoricNearWestside.com of Elmira-goals are outlined below:
- Collect and document the history of Elmira utilizing oral, written, and visual mediums.
- Develop historical publications for the purpose of promotion, preservation, and education.
- Participate in cooperative efforts with other organizations to establish a heritage mission.
- Encourage the preservation and restoration of historic buildings and sites.
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Cite Information
Some of the historic references are from the Near Westside Neighborhood Association Incorporated BIG BLUE BOOK
Titled
THE
HISTORIC NEAR WESTSIDE
ELMIRA NY
Second Edition
Avalable in the refrence section at the Steele Memorial Library, Elmira, NY
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