Morgan-Manning House
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The Morgan-Manning House is an historic house located in Brockport
, Monroe County, New York
. It was built in 1854 and is a 2-story, Italianate
–style brick dwelling on a limestone
foundation. The five-by-four-bay main block features a hipped roof and cupola
. It has a 2-story hipped roof wing with a smaller 2-story brick appendage creating a stepped, or telescoping, plan or profile. The house also has a full width porch
with brick piers. The interior features elaborate interior woodwork, period plasterwork, stained glass and decorated ceilings. Also on the property is a contributing carriage house
.
The home was originally built for John C.Ostrom and was purchased in 1867 by Dayton S. Morgan and his wife Susan Jocelyn Morgan. Dayton Morgan was a local industrialist whose foundry, the Globe Iron Works, produced the first hundred mechanized reapers for Cyrus McCormick
. Mr Morgan went on to produce his own very successful mechanized reapers with business partner William Seymour. The house remained in the Morgan family for almost the next hundred years. The Morgan family remodeled many of the rooms on the main floor of the house in the late Victorian style, embellishing the rooms oak and cherry paneling and trim, and stained glass windows. Dayton Morgan died in 1890. Dayton's daughter Sara Morgan married physician Frederick Manning in the 1890's. After the early death of her husband, Mrs. Manning returned to Brockport with her young son Arnold, who died at age 21 in 1916. Sara Morgan Manning stayed on in her parents house until her death in 1964, at age 96, following a disastrous fire that swept through the house.
Mrs. Manning bequeathed her home to her community. A group of local citizens formed the Western Monroe Historical Society to restore and care for the house, which had become a local landmark. The damage from the fire has been repaired and the house is furnished to reflect the lifestyle of a wealthy canal town resident during the second half of the 19th Century, through the first quarter of the 20th century. The Society's collection includes many portraits of locally prominent 19th Century residents and furnishings from local families.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
in 1991. It is designated as a Point of Interest on the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor
by the National Park Service
.
Brockport, New York
Brockport is a village located in the Town of Sweden in Monroe County, New York, USA. The population was 8,103 at the 2000 census. The name is derived from Hiel Brockway, an early settler....
, Monroe County, New York
Monroe County, New York
Monroe County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 744,344. It is named after James Monroe, fifth President of the United States of America. Its county seat is the city of Rochester....
. It was built in 1854 and is a 2-story, Italianate
Italianate architecture
The Italianate style of architecture was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. In the Italianate style, the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian Renaissance architecture, which had served as inspiration for both Palladianism and...
–style brick dwelling on a limestone
Limestone
Limestone is a sedimentary rock composed largely of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of calcium carbonate . Many limestones are composed from skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral or foraminifera....
foundation. The five-by-four-bay main block features a hipped roof and cupola
Cupola
In architecture, a cupola is a small, most-often dome-like, structure on top of a building. Often used to provide a lookout or to admit light and air, it usually crowns a larger roof or dome....
. It has a 2-story hipped roof wing with a smaller 2-story brick appendage creating a stepped, or telescoping, plan or profile. The house also has a full width porch
Porch
A porch is external to the walls of the main building proper, but may be enclosed by screen, latticework, broad windows, or other light frame walls extending from the main structure.There are various styles of porches, all of which depend on the architectural tradition of its location...
with brick piers. The interior features elaborate interior woodwork, period plasterwork, stained glass and decorated ceilings. Also on the property is a contributing carriage house
Carriage house
A carriage house, also called remise or coach house, is an outbuilding which was originally built to house horse-drawn carriages and the related tack.In Great Britain the farm building was called a Cart Shed...
.
The home was originally built for John C.Ostrom and was purchased in 1867 by Dayton S. Morgan and his wife Susan Jocelyn Morgan. Dayton Morgan was a local industrialist whose foundry, the Globe Iron Works, produced the first hundred mechanized reapers for Cyrus McCormick
Cyrus McCormick
Cyrus Hall McCormick, Sr. was an American inventor and founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which became part of International Harvester Company in 1902.He and many members of the McCormick family became prominent Chicagoans....
. Mr Morgan went on to produce his own very successful mechanized reapers with business partner William Seymour. The house remained in the Morgan family for almost the next hundred years. The Morgan family remodeled many of the rooms on the main floor of the house in the late Victorian style, embellishing the rooms oak and cherry paneling and trim, and stained glass windows. Dayton Morgan died in 1890. Dayton's daughter Sara Morgan married physician Frederick Manning in the 1890's. After the early death of her husband, Mrs. Manning returned to Brockport with her young son Arnold, who died at age 21 in 1916. Sara Morgan Manning stayed on in her parents house until her death in 1964, at age 96, following a disastrous fire that swept through the house.
Mrs. Manning bequeathed her home to her community. A group of local citizens formed the Western Monroe Historical Society to restore and care for the house, which had become a local landmark. The damage from the fire has been repaired and the house is furnished to reflect the lifestyle of a wealthy canal town resident during the second half of the 19th Century, through the first quarter of the 20th century. The Society's collection includes many portraits of locally prominent 19th Century residents and furnishings from local families.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
in 1991. It is designated as a Point of Interest on the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor
Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor
The Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor is a National Heritage Area in New York State.It has created signage in a wide area, including placing signs many miles away from any historic site of the Erie Canal....
by the National Park Service
National Park Service
The National Park Service is the U.S. federal agency that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations...
.
External links
- Western Monroe Historical Society profile
- National Register of Historic Places profile
- Biography of Dayton S. Morgan from History of Rochester and Monroe County New York From the Earliest Historic Times to the Beginning of 1907