High Victorian Homes & Guided Tours Finger Lakes Region

 

351 West Water Street

circa 1915

Palladian window featuring an oversized keystone higlights the gambrel gable.

This house is located on land owned in 1876 by John McNeil, salesman. The first listed occupant is Ernest M. Brannan in 1917. He was with Hogg Lyon Co, known today as the Hogg Nichols Co., plumbing and heating. Other occupants of the house have included: Belle Lambert,operator of the Little Emboidery Shop: C. Kenneth Noakes, osteopath: John Front, proprietor of the Sanitary Meat Market; and Henry Kelley, real estate and insurance. The house is now used as an apartment house.

 

402 West Water Street

circa 1852

Greek Revival style (large)

This house  was Lot #1 on the thirty acre Davis farm. It is believed to be built by John Davis, a farmer and stage coach owner. Subseque3nt owners were Isaac Baldwin, mill owner and builder of an early tannery and Dan Builder,  very infljuential in the building of the Chemunc Canal. In 1905 Warren Beck bought the house and he and his family lived there until 1956. Mr. Beck was the patentee of a notched carbon copy which became the American Sales Book Co., Inc.. This is now a part of Moore Business Forms.

533 West Water Street circa 1891

This property that this house now occupies was owned in 1865 by Lewis J. Stancliff, president of the Elmira Bank, and in 1876 by Jefferson B. Clark, lumber dealer. The first occupant of theis house was Frnton B. Weaver, an insurance agent at 207 Robinson Building. He lived at this residence from 1891-1938. In 1939-40, Mrs. Pearl Brewer, wido of Bert Brewer, lived here. In 1941, the house was purchased by Harold M Wakley, a salesman. His widow, Florence Wakley, still lives here. Now currently a two unit apartment bldg.

535 West Water St. circa 1889

This home was built on a lot owned by Lewis J. Stancliff, president of the Elmira Bank, in1865. By 1876, the property had been transferred to Jefferson B. clark, lumber dealer. The house was first occupied by William Cass Allington, in 1889. Since he was a contractor, builder and realtor, one may asusume that he built the house. He, and later his widow, continued to live there through 1913. It was then owned by Martin B. Wheeler, groceries and meats, and from 1929-1947, by Joseph A. Rhodes, manger of J.A. Rhodes, packer of leaf tobacco. since 1949, the house has been used as a residence and doctor's office. Currently an apartment bldg.