Opened to the public in 1976, the Genesee Country Village and Museum includes dozens of structures on about 200 acres. There's also an art gallery with a fantastic collection of wildlife and sporting art and a nature center.
This weekend there was an agricultural fair where my 4-H member nieces won ribbons for their chickens and helped things run smoothly in the poultry barn.
They have programs where you can stay overnight or weekends but have to basically live as if in the time period.
The 3-hole outhouse (a concept I never understood) for the octogon-shaped home above
Alpaca (not a llama...learn the difference!)
Poultry barn
On to Rochester!
A couple of these photos were posted (by me) on a thread a year or so ago.
From Corn Hill
The University of Rochester
Monroe Community Hospital. Construction began in 1931 and one of the architect's assistants was Thomas Boyde, Jr., the 1st African-American architect in the area. As I was taking the shots, someone mentioned that members of city council weren't too pleased to have him on the project. He 'got even' by carving a not too flattering likeness of them and installed the statues around the building.
South of the city, near Naples, about 50 windmills have been erected. The blades are 150 +/- feet long. Only a few were completed and working but they were quite a sight.
Canandaigua Lake
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Great pics! I really want to make a trip to the Rochester area, hopefully soon.
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Great pictures. I never heard of the Genesee Country Village before. Did they buy up an old town as-is, or did they purchase houses and move them there, or is everything new?
I see those windmills when I use I-86 and I-390 to get to Buffalo. They're really starting to pop up now.
Nice little tour here. Hot damn Rochester has some stunning gems. That Genesee Country Village place gives me the creeps for some reason. Cool photos, though.
Genesee Country Village is south of Rochester in Mumford. They reconstructed homes from across the region and moved them there. I've been there a few times. As for those windmills near Cohocton, they have sparked a lot of fury from NIMBYs in the the area. It is interesting to see Western New York forging into the future this way.
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