Batavia Club
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Batavia Club
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East profile and south elevation, 2009
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| Location | Batavia, NY |
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| Coordinates | 42°59′51″N 78°10′53″W / 42.99750°N 78.18139°WCoordinates: 42°59′51″N 78°10′53″W / 42.99750°N 78.18139°W |
| Built | 1831 |
| Architect | Hezekiah Eldredge |
| Architectural style | Federal style |
| NRHP reference # | 73001192 |
| Added to NRHP | June 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. After the club moved out in 2000, it became the Seymour Place facility of GO ART!, the Genesee-Orleans Regional Arts Council.
The building is on the intersection's northeast corner. On the other corners are more modern commercial buildings, as on both sides of East Main. To the northwest is the Genesee Country Mall's large parking area. Two blocks to the west is Batavia's city hall and the Genesee County Courthouse Historic District, the collection of government buildings at downtown's western edge.
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 has 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.
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