| The Main Street historic district is architecturally and historically significant. With its exceptionally intact residential neighborhoods, it illustrates the development of the village during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The Main Street district is one of Mount Morris’ earliest residential neighborhoods. |
| Mount Morris continued to grow rapidly as a stop on the Genesee Valley Canal. The busy trading and manufacturing center dealt mainly with agricultural endeavors. |
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 14 Main Street Mills Mansion: This two-story building features a typical Federal era form being three-bays wide, rectangular, and having a gable-roofed main block with its ridge parallel to the road. The early Greek Revival style is evident in the bold, flat-arched stone lintels above the door and window openings, and the recessed entrance flanked by Ionic columns. |
 125 Main Street: The Queen Anne design two-story residence has a bay window with pilasters and a three-part arched stained glass transom. Above the angled bay window, the second story has sunburst wood carvings topped with an octagonal roof. |
 127 Main Street: This Queen Anne home demonstrates the features of this eclectic design through the three-story square tower with bracketed eaves and iron roof cresting. The home dons the decorative details of scroll brackets on the front façade porch, chamfered Italianate posts, and simple square balustrade. |
 133 Main Street: This two-story home has a gabled roof rear wings and sits on a cut stone foundation. Behind the house sits a two -story carriage barn that has three bays with double hinged doors, a square cupola, board-and-batten siding and a gabled roof. |
 137 Main Street: Fashioned in the Colonial Revival style, the main entrance to this two-story home is Adamesque with a glazed fan light and side lights. Doric pilasters and columns support the lowpitched, hipped entrance roof. |
 139 Main Street: This structure of Queen Anne design, is shown through brick laid in English bond, decorative wood shingles in dormers and gable ends, stone quoins on the corners, and asphalt roof shingles. This home sits on a stone foundation. |
 145 Main Street: Rebuilt in the Neoclassical style, the twostory porch has a curved central projection and is supported by fluted Ionic columns. Built in 1838, the home has 34 rooms and was originally owned by the Wisner’s. The original kitchen was in the basement and beneath the kitchen is a room once used as a Underground Railroad station. The residence is currently operated as the Allegiance Bed & Breakfast. |
 163 Main Street: Built in 1848, this home is the birthplace of Francis Bellamy, author of the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. The Francis Bellamy House is a vernacular interpretation of the Greek Revival style. The main block of the house is three bays wide and four bays deep. The entrance features a paneled door, fluted pilasters with sidelights, and a transom. |
 176 Main Street: The Union School of Mount Morris was organized in 1844 by the consolidation of four districts. In 1845 the one-story brick school house was built at an expense of $3,500. In 1910 a second story of frame construction was added. It has since been used as a private residence. |
 152-154 Main Street: This home, a two and onehalf story Second Empire style double residence, features a straight roof shape and decorative brackets under the extended roof eaves. All the front windows have segmented arched stone window headers and paired entrances on the front façade with double paneled doors and overhead semicircular windows. |
 140 Main Street: This two and one-half story structure in veneer brick is five bays wide with varied depth. This side-gabled Georgian Revival residence has elaborate classical details such as highly decorated roof eaves with medallions. The three attic dormer windows at the front of the house are adorned with pediments over round-arched, double-hung sash windows. |
 126 Main Street: This Queen Anne style home was built in 1892 by architect Peter Aex. The two and one-half story residence is three bays wide with a hipped roof and rectangular floor plan. The front gabled porch has dentils and stick work, wooden columns decorated with bands, and capitals in groups of three. |
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