Hall's Opera Block

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

“Hall's Opera Block, also known as Clark's Opera House and Avon Opera Block, is a historic commercial building located at Avon in Livingston County, New York. It is a three-story, two part commercial block completed in 1876 in the Italianate style.”
Wikipedia article Hall's Opera Block, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 92 National Register listings published here for Livingston County · listed in 2006 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 15-19 Genesee St., Avon, 14414
When was it listed? September 2006
Category. building
Town. Avon town
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 06000884 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

120 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Hall's Opera Block between 2000 and 2020, burning about 105 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 27 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	51
Arson/incendiarism	27
Debris and open burning	19
Natural	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
21 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
2 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
25 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 August 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Livingston County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Hall's Opera Block: 7 producers, 5 past producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
East Avon Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Halpin Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Halpin Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Highway Department Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Highway Department Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Highway Department Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Highway Department Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Number 1 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Number 2 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Plant Number 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Livingston County

Storms near this property

42 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Avon, the town this property stands in, in 42 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 23 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 3 flood, 2 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
January 1999	Heavy Snow	Avon	$75,000	no account filed
July 2004	Lightning	Avon	$50,000	no account filed
July 2014	Flash Flood	Avon	$35,000	no account filed
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon	$20,000	Law enforcement reported numerous trees and wires down from thunderstorm winds near Avon. Trees damaged several parked cars.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon	$20,000	no account filed
October 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon	$15,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
September 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon	$15,000	Law enforcement reported trees and power lines downed by thunderstorm winds.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon	$15,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon	$15,000	no account filed
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon	$10,000	Trees, powerlines, and power poles downed.
November 2017	Flood	South Avon	$10,000	Genesee River at Avon crested at 33.85 feet at 7:30 AM on the 6th (Flood Stage is 33 feet).
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon	$10,000	Law enforcement reported trees down.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon	$10,000	Trees and wires were downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon	$10,000	Thunderstorms developed in a moist, unstable atmosphere and produced damaging winds and large hail. The winds downed trees and power lines. Scattered power outages resulted. The torrential rains of the thunderstorms resulted in localized poor drainage flooding.
April 2017	Flood	Avon	$10,000	no account filed
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon	$10,000	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon	$8,000	no account filed
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon	$5,000	Multiple reports of trees down received in the Village of Avon.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon	$5,000	A tree was reported down onto a trailer.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon	$5,000	no account filed
July 1994	Hail	Avon	$5,000	no account filed
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	South Avon	$2,000	Trees and wires downed making road impassable.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon	$2,000	Power lines were downed in the village of Avon, including at North Avenue and Main Street.
July 1995	Hail	Avon	$2,000	Thunderstorms developed in a moist, unstable atmosphere and produced damaging winds and large hail. The winds downed trees and power lines. Scattered power outages resulted. The torrential rains of the thunderstorms resulted in localized poor drainage flooding.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	South Avon	$1,000	Wires downed.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon	$1,000	Power lines downed.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon	$1,000	A tree was reported down and on fire from the electrical wires it took down.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon	-	Large tree downed on a house.
June 2025	Flash Flood	Avon	-	Report of Wadsworth Ave closed with water flowing over the road. Possible road damage also reported.
October 2021	Flood	Avon	-	Minor flooding was reported along the Genesee River at Avon. The river peaked at 34.4 feet.
April 2025	Hail	Avon	-	no account filed
April 2025	Hail	Avon	-	no account filed
April 2025	Hail	East Avon	-	no account filed
April 2025	Hail	Avon	-	no account filed
April 2025	Hail	Avon	-	no account filed
June 2025	Heavy Rain	Avon	-	no account filed
June 2025	Heavy Rain	Avon	-	no account filed
August 2019	Hail	East Avon	-	no account filed
August 2019	Hail	East Avon	-	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	Avon	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Livingston County

Maps showing this location

10 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1901 USGS Honeoye quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Honeoye quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1934 USGS Rush quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1951 USGS Rush quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Rush quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1983 USGS Canandaigua quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
First Methodist Episcopal Church of Avon	0.1 miles	2005
Aaron Barber Memorial Building	0.1 miles	2008
Avon Inn	0.2 miles	1991
Avon Village Historic District	0.2 miles	2022
J. Francis Kellogg House	0.4 miles	2003
Avon Five Arch Bridge	1.3 miles	2012

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06000884 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Livingston County	All 92 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.