Events
History Presentations
The Society sponsors lectures and presentations featuring stimulating local and regional speakers. These programs are monthly during the year starting in September and running through May and take place on the third Tuesday of the month at 7:30 p.m.
The location of the lectures is the Museum's lower level. Although the main level of the Museum is handicapped accessible, the lower level is not. Often presentations are held at the Fairport Library or the Perinton Community Center for this reason.
Programs are free and open to the public.
Please see the sidebar article or the calendar to confirm dates, time and location.
Board of Trustee Meetings
The governing body of the Society meets monthy on the third tuesday of the month from August to May. Meetings are at 7 p.m. and generally are located in the lower level of the Museum which is not handicapped accessable. These meetings are open to all members.
Please check the calendar for dates and locations.
Historic Tours
The Society has organized and sponsored over thirty house tours. Each one consists of six to eight properties including homes, barns, churches and commercial properties.
Once held in the fall, the tours are now held in April each year and are included with Society membership. Tickets are also available for non-members.
For three years, the tours have focused on areas of the Village that are within walking distance of each other. They involved South Main and East Church in ‘06, West Ave in 07 and the Faircroft Subdivision in ’08. The latest tour in '09 was held in the Hamlet of Egypt.
See the calendar for dates of upcoming tours and enjoy brief discriptions of past tours on the Historic Tours section of the site.
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Front Porches of Fairport
March 16, 2010 at 7:30 pm
Fairport Historical Museum
On March 16, Perinton photographer Keith Boas will present an illustrated program featuring more than 100 classic front porches, stoops and verandas in the Village of Fairport. The program, which includes historical photos and an array of colorful, modern-day images, will be held at 7:30 pm at the Fairport Museum, 18 Perrin Street. The event is sponsored by the Perinton Historical Society and is free to the public.
Boas took all the photos for the 2010 Front Porches of Fairport Calendar, recently published by the Fairport Village Partnership. His upcoming program, while based on the calendar, goes beyond house porches to cover other pictorial, porch-related subjects, such as local canal docks and the facades of several Fairport community buildings.
Boas is a retired Kodak marketing professional and holds a BFA degree in Photographic Illustration from Rochester Institute of Technology. He is the co-photographer/author of the books More Joy of Photography, Waterfalls of the Adirondacks & Catskills, The Guide to 35mm Photography and Fairport & Perinton: Then & Now.
For more information or directions to the Fairport Museum e-mail us at info@perintonhistoricalsociety.org
House Tour-Spring 2010
The 30th Annual Historic House Tour will take place Sunday, April 25, 2010 from 1 to 5 p.m. and will feature designated landmark homes and an army bunker in the Bushnell Basin area of Perinton.
The bunker is on Burnley Rise in the Town. It is where many soldiers trained nearly 100 years ago before heading to trench warfare in Europe during World War I. It was used for “known distance” target practice by soldiers from Rochester who came to Bushnell’s Basin by trolley and marched up to the top of the hill.
The site was originally on the Crump farm, near Route 96 and Kreag Road, where Warren “Barney” Crump grew up. Crump remembered the soldiers coming out to the farm when he was a boy. It was built early in the 20th century.
The bunker was found in the early 1990s when Gary DeBlase, a developer, was building houses in the area. He donated about an acre of land to the town. It is possibly the only one of its kind left in the state measuring 30 feet long, 8 feet wide and 7 feet high.
On tour day members of the Perinton Memorial Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8495 will staff the bunker.
More information will be available on the historic homes on the tour soon, stay tuned.
If you would like to volunteer to be a tour guide for the tour contact us by e-mail at: info@perintonhistoricalsociety.org.
Exhibits
1817 Maps on Display
On display in the Museum are copies of the original maps used in support of the building of an interior canal from the Hudson River to Lake Erie. The bill in the legislature was passed and the Erie Canal was built.
Maps 13 and 14 of the 1817 maps by James Geddes, showing the proposed canal route across the Town of Perinton will be on display in the Museum. They were acquired for the museum from the NYS Archives by Bill Keeler, Museum Director and Curator, and are part of a set of maps tracking the western part of the proposed Erie Canal.
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