Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell Childhood Home
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The Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell Childhood Home is a historic home located at Henrietta
in Monroe County, New York
. It is a vernacular Federal
style masonry residence constructed of random fieldstone
with brick infill. It was built in 1830 as a -story side-gable-and-wing design and later modified and expanded. It is notable as the childhood residence of women's rights
advocate Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825–1921), who was the first woman to be ordained as a minister in the United States.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
in 1989.
Henrietta, New York
Henrietta is a town in Monroe County, New York, United States. It is a suburb of Rochester. The population was 42,581 at the 2010 census. Established in 1818, the town is named after Henrietta Laura Pulteney, Countess of Bath, daughter of Sir William Pulteney, 5th Baronet, a major British...
in Monroe County, New York
Monroe County, New York
Monroe County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 744,344. It is named after James Monroe, fifth President of the United States of America. Its county seat is the city of Rochester....
. It is a vernacular Federal
Federal architecture
Federal-style architecture is the name for the classicizing architecture built in the United States between c. 1780 and 1830, and particularly from 1785 to 1815. This style shares its name with its era, the Federal Period. The name Federal style is also used in association with furniture design...
style masonry residence constructed of random fieldstone
Fieldstone
Fieldstone is a building construction material. Strictly speaking, it is stone collected from the surface of fields where it occurs naturally...
with brick infill. It was built in 1830 as a -story side-gable-and-wing design and later modified and expanded. It is notable as the childhood residence of women's rights
Women's rights
Women's rights are entitlements and freedoms claimed for women and girls of all ages in many societies.In some places these rights are institutionalized or supported by law, local custom, and behaviour, whereas in others they may be ignored or suppressed...
advocate Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825–1921), who was the first woman to be ordained as a minister in the United States.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
in 1989.