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The Batavia Club building, built originally as the Bank of Genesee, is located 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 both 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.〔 After the club moved out in 2000, it became the Seymour Place facility of GO ART!, the Genesee-Orleans Regional Arts Council. ==Building== The building is on the northeast corner of the intersection. On the other corners are more modern commercial buildings, as on both sides of East Main. To the northwest is the large parking area for the Genesee Country Mall. Two blocks to the west is Batavia's city hall and the Genesee County Courthouse Historic District, the collection of government buildings at the western edge of downtown. The former clubhouse is an L-shaped two-story three-by-five-bay brick building on a stone foundation with stepped gable roof. Two chimneys rise at the east and west ends. A one-story cement block kitchen addition is built on the north (rear) of the main section, replacing an earlier kitchen wing. The rear consists of two sections, the three-bay west elevation of the main block and a two-bay rear projection.〔 All windows have plain stone sills and lintels. On the south (front) facade, they are additionally flanked by paired wooden colonettes. The main entrance, with sidelights, is similarly decorated and topped with a heavy wooden bracketed flat-roofed hood. The small front yard has a wooden fence with wide square recessed-paneled columns.〔 At the front, and on the rear extension, the roofline is marked by overhanging eaves with a dentilled soffit. On the side elevations a parapet with the chimneys rises above the roofline. The six-over-six double-hung sash windows have just the sill and lintel. Above them, in the gable field, is a wide fanlight and "SEYMOUR PLACE" in metal lettering on the west side. The northern window on the main block has been converted into an entrance with four-paned glass transom. Stairs and a wheelchair ramp lead to it from the north.〔 Inside, the central hallway divides a living room, formerly the banking room and now an art gallery, on the west from a dining room (also used as a gallery on occasion) with two fireplaces running the length of the building to the east. The woodwork, such as the stairs and mantels, is original and well-maintained.〔 In the rear are the kitchen facilities, with some past fire damage evident, a bar and storage space. The upstairs rooms are plainer. Largely unused during the club's ownership, they are today office space for the arts council.〔Genesee-Orleans Regional Arts Council, , 2–3, retrieved December 25, 2010.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Batavia Club」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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