Romantic Victorian Homes & Guided Tours. Motor coach step on guide available, Victorian Architecture Elmira, NY Historic Mark Twain Tours.
Finger Lakes Victorian Home Tours, information, restorations, & MORE, Chemung County, in Historic Elmira NY Mark Twain Tours
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Take a guided tour of our historic district. Visit inside High Victorian's, Gothic Churches, restored carriage house, and more!
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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 Southen Finger Lakes Region
Greek Revival Style
Tudor Style
Near Westside Neighborhood
Nationally Registered Historic District
Second Empire Style
Gothic Revival Vistit the church here http://www.grace-elmira.org/
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Known for historic and architectural photography, insights into HISTORY, ARCHITECTURE, & ADVENTURE, in and around a nationally recognized historic district of 450 homes.
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*Area Links*Home Histories*Stained Glass*Architecture Styles, and MORE!
circa 1891
are decorated both inside, and out, so that the homes can be for everyone's enjoyment!
Cape May of Western New York State
Supporting Finger Lakes Adventure Tourism
ONE hour driver from Hammonsport, Ithica, Binghamton NY.
THIRTY minute driver from Corning, Watkins Glen NY.
TEN minute drive from Big Flats, Horsheads NY.
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
Villa Italianate Style
This site contains over 450 pictures of Elmira, New York's nationally registered historic district. Known as the Near Westside Neighborhood. Also in this site are many photos of Elmira and her architectural heritage. Useful area links, stained glass windows and more. Most of all - Elmira was summer home for 19 years of "Mark Twain" Samuel Clemens. His wife, Olivia Langdon Clemens, is from a prominent and wealthy Elmira High Victorian family.
Only known film of Mark Twain
watch video by Thomas Edison. ALSO go here to see the Mark Twain Study on Elmira Collage Campus. http://www.galenfrysinger.com/mark_twain_elmira_ny.htm
Photos of Mark Twain birthplace
Photos of Mark Twain House, Hartford, Connecticut
Our historic homes by streets CLICK HERE
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Designation as... largest concentration of Victorian architecture!
A short DRIVE from major NYS metropolitan area's and our airport is only 20 minutes away.
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Victorian homes snow pictures
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By Ray Finger •rafinger@gannett.com • October 26, 2009, 7:05 pmElmira dentist plans replica of Mark Twain's study for Eldridge Park
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Located in beautiful upstate New York’s Finger Lakes region is ELMIRA NY.
Elmira NY Downtown "Main Street USA"
Airial view of the Near Westside Neighborhood.
Photo courtosey of James Aber. The City of Elmira NY has five bridges and one train bridge crossing the beutiful Chemung River. http://www.chemungriverfriends.org/
Western New York State's best kept secret!
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Elmira's City Hall freeze
Click here to view a short video about Elmira NY. Vistit the City of Elmira's website at CityofElmira.netTo see our historic homes by streetsclick here.
After 478 properties were surveyed, the Near Westside Neighborhood Association Inc. submitted all the data to the New York State Division for Historic Preservation for preliminary approval.
Upon New York State’s approval, the entire package was submitted to the U.S. Department of the Interior for Federal historic designation.
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The concept of a Historic District for the entire Near Westside Neighborhood was first conceived in 1978.
After a period of more than 5 years, this concept became a reality. The U.S. Department of the Interior listed the Near Westside Neighborhood on the National Register of Historic Places as a Historic District, on December 22, 1983.
This is a picture driven web site. Please take the time to enjoy the streets of Elmira's National Historic District known as the Near Westside Neighborhood. Also enjoy historic sites of our city and Mark Twains summer home.
The "Near Westside Neighborhood". To see our historic homes by streetsclick here.
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Samuel Draper tour guide and director, shooting billards with "Mark Twain" at the Painted Lady
www.ElmirasPaintedLady.com billyard room
"An Elmira Connection"
An adaptation and re-enactment of Mark Twain's "A True Story"
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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.
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The Park Church click here for current Restoration VIDEO
Mark, Tom, Becky, at Park Church, Elmira, NY
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Eric Lindsey potraying Samuel L. Clemons's "Mark Twain"
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Sam Draper
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Take a walk,Guided tour info here view the architecture, have lunch at several neighborhood restaurants and pubs. Shop at the "Community Book Store" CommunityBookStore.com caring a variety of books(including local authors), CD's of area musicians, gifts, and fresh ground coffee! 20 oz. $1.25. Also enjoy teas, a variety of drinks, ice cream, and SNACKS! Visit the second floor FREE "Mark Twain Hotel Museum" open 7 am till 9 pm seven days a week.
We recommend for your self guided tour to start at the "Community Book Store" Our neighborhood restaurants and pubs are all less than a 5-minute walk. Ask Karen (owner operator) at the "Community Book Store" for directions and area information. www.CommunityBookStore.com
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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.
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active advocacy, participation in community planning, innovative educational programs, the preservation of properties.
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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.
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- 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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Some of the historic refrences are from the Near Westside Neighborhood Association Incorporated BIG BLUE BOOK
Titled
THE
HISTORIC NEAR WESTSIDE
ELMIRA NY
Second Edition
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