Essex Locations on the National Registry of Historic Places
Essex Village Historic District
Essex Village Historic District is a national historic district located at Essex in Essex County, New York. The district contains 150 contributing buildings. It encompasses the historic core of the hamlet of Essex and primarily contains early-19th-century buildings. The predominant building materials are clapboarded wood frame, brick, and stone and none of the buildings exceed 2+1⁄2 stories in height.
Essex County Home and Farm
Essex County Home and Farm, also known as Whallonsburg County Home and Infirmary, is a historic almshouse and infirmary located at Whallonsburg in Essex County, New York. The property include seven contributing buildings and one contributing site. The core of the complex is a homogeneous cluster of four brick buildings on fieldstone foundations.
Octagonal Schoolhouse
The Octagonal Schoolhouse was completed in 1827 by mill superintendent Benjamin Gilbert who was charged by mill owner William Ross to build it. The school was built using money and land donated by Mr. Ross, mill employees, and the three foot thick local stones. By 1870, attendance began declining and the school was closed in 1952. In 2015, Governor Cuomo awarded the Town of Moriah along with the Towns of Willsboro and Essex a grant to restore the schoolhouse and two other historic properties.
Church of the Nazarene
The Boquet Chapel was built in 1855 for St. John's Episcopal Church, three years after the publication of Upjohn's Rural Architecture in which the design appears.[3] In 1880 St. John's built a new church in Essex and sold the chapel to the Union Church at Boquet Chapel composed of Presbyterians and Baptists, which used it until 1922 when it was closed. It was reopened in 1949 as the Church of the Nazarene.
North-Sprague Farm
Located at the corner of Walker and Powers Roads, this farmhouse is now the home to the owners of Echo Farm/Farmstead Catering.