Museum Exhibits

The Fairport Museum is divided into three areas of interest. The south wing showcases domestic and family life including costumes and accessories, the north wing focuses on our early history with displays on early settlers, farming, canal development and area industry. Located in the west end is a general store with history publications and gift items for sale

Social, Domestic & Family Life--South Wing

People in the Fairport and Perinton area have donated all of the items in this wing to the museum. The artifacts show 19th and early 20th century American life and the domestic arts including sewing, food preparation, cooking, canning, cleaning, and leisure.There are also school items and pictures of the Fairport Schools, the Georgiene Bolton hatpin collection and George Lawrence pharmaceutical collection.

Farming, Canal Development & Industry--North Wing

Displayed here are Native American objects found in Perinton, the Erie and Barge Canal development, businesses and products made in Fairport and inventors and inventions from the area. Early patrons and founders of businesses, which helped Fairport prosper, are represented. You will find displays on the DeLand family, Robert Douglas, Dr. Kohler and many others.

More contemporary local history items include pictures of buildings razed for urban renewal, festivals such as Old Home Week 1908, the Perinton Sesquicentennial 1962 and Fairport Centennial 1967.This wing also contains the Helen Butler/Elma Gaffney Memorial Library of local history books and manuscripts.