Hiram Sibley Homestead is a historic home located at Sibleyville

Mendon, New York

Mendon is a town in Monroe County, New York, United States, and an affluent suburb of Rochester, New York. The population was 9,152 at the 2010 census.The Town of Mendon is on the south border of the county...

 in Monroe County, New York

Monroe County, New York

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. The wood frame Federal

Federal architecture

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-style house was built about 1827 and consists of five sections. The original house includes the -story rectangular main section and the attached 2-story north and west wings. It was moved to its present site in 1928. It was built by Hiram Sibley

Hiram Sibley

Hiram Sibley , was an industrialist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist.Sibley was born in North Adams, Massachusetts, and later resided in Rochester, New York. He became interested in the work of Samuel Morse involving the telegraph.In 1840, he joined with Morse and Ezra Cornell to create a...

 (1807–1888) and was the site of his initial business ventures in milling and manufacturing.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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in 1985.