Batavia Club

Batavia Club
A brick building on a corner with a traffic signal in front of it. Two chimneys rise from a section that rises above the roofline on the side facing the camera; the front faces the right side. Metal lettering on the section facing the camera spells out "Seymour Place".
East profile and south elevation, 2009
Batavia Club is located in New York
Batavia Club
Batavia Club is located in the United States
Batavia Club
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LocationBatavia, NY
Coordinates42°59′51″N 78°10′53″W / 42.99750°N 78.18139°W / 42.99750; -78.18139
Built1831[2]
ArchitectHezekiah Eldredge
Architectural styleFederal style
NRHP reference No.73001192[1]
Added to NRHPJune 19, 1973

The Batavia Club building, built originally as the Bank of Genesee, is on the corner of East Main (New York state routes 5 and 33) and Bank streets in Batavia, New York, United States. It is a brick Federal style building from the 1830s, one of the few remaining examples in New York of a commercial building in that style from that period.

Of the two extant works in New York of Rochester architect-builder Hezekiah Eldredge, it is the less restrained, serving as a bank and a residence for the cashier. The Batavia Club purchased the building in 1886 and used it for many years. In 1973, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[1] After the club moved out in 2000, it became the Seymour Place facility of GO ART!, the Genesee-Orleans Regional Arts Council.

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ "Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS)". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on 2019-04-04. Retrieved 2016-05-01. Note: This includes Cornelia E. Brooke (April 1973). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Batavia Club" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-05-01. and Accompanying two photographs