46, 48 & 50 Park Place, 1826
Built by Nicholas Ayrault, these houses have
had later additions of porches and entrance ways to their simple Federal style
facades. Number 50 housed a private school for young ladies from the 1850s to
the 1880s. on houses 48 and 50 the transoms over the door were made at Ontario
Glass Company at Glass Factory Bay, south of Geneva.
In 1824 a village statute established Bank
Alley, named after the bank of the square. In 1892, the residents petitioned the
village officials to change the name to Park Avenue, implying a higher social
status. |