Reconnaissance-Level Survey of Historic Resources, Village of Fairport, Monroe County, New York, August 2014

Bero Architecture PLLC

From introduction: "The Village of Fairport initiated this reconnaissance-level survey to expand upon and update previous survey efforts, in order to identify and evaluate the historic resources located within the Village. The survey was conducted by Katie Eggers Comeau of Bero Architecture PLLC following New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (OPHRP, also known as SHPO, for the State Historic Preservation Office) standards. A key goal of the project was to update and expand upon a village-wide survey undertaken by the Landmark Society of Western New York in 1976. In 2008-09, the Perinton Historical Society’s Historic Structures Committee documented the condition of 270 buildings and structures identified in the 1976 survey. The Fairport Historic Preservation Commission, established in 2007 when the village adopted a preservation ordinance, has been using documentation from the 1976 and 2008-09 efforts to determine priorities for designation of individual landmarks, and has made notable progress in designating the top-rated buildings from those surveys. The present survey area (See Appendix A, Historic Resources Map) encompasses the entire incorporated Village of Fairport and addresses readily observed buildings, structures, sites and objects constructed prior to 1970. The survey was limited to above-ground historic resources. Prehistoric and historic archaeological sites were outside the scope of this study. Properties that have been designated as local landmarks and/or that were documented in 2008-09 were not researched in detail for this project, but are included in the Annotated Building List in Section V. This survey seeks to address several goals: 1. Identify significant historic resources that were not included in the 1976 survey. This included properties that were not yet 50 years old, properties where incompatible alterations have been reversed since 1976, and properties whose potential importance has come to light since 1976. 2. Compile and organize existing and new survey information as a single resource that can guide the village’s ongoing preservation efforts, as the 1976 survey has done for almost 40 years. 3. Address current SHPO standards, which place more emphasis on establishing important historic themes and less emphasis, in the reconnaissance phase, on detailed documentation of individual properties. 4. Update recommendations from the 1976 survey with respect to historic districts." Funding was provided in part by a 2013 Historic Preservation Fund grant to the Village of Fairport (project number NY-13-050) administered by the New York State Historic Preservation Office (grant number 36-13-51939) and the State, Tribal, and Local Plans and Grants Division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Fairport, New York is a Certified Local Government.

Reconnaissance-Level Survey of Historic Resources, Village of Fairport, Monroe County, New York, August 2014

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