Fillmore House

Millard Fillmore House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
New York State Register of Historic Places
Millard Fillmore House, September 2012
Location	24 Shearer Avenue, East Aurora, New York
Coordinates	42°46′5.87″N 78°37′21.02″W / 42.7682972°N 78.6225056°W / 42.7682972; -78.6225056
Area	less than one acre
Built	1826 (1826)
NRHP reference No.	74001235
NYSRHP No.	02952.000003
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	May 30, 1974[1]
Designated NHL	May 30, 1974[2]
Designated NYSRHP	June 23, 1980

This article is part of a series about Millard Fillmore
Personal Early life and career House University at Buffalo 12th Vice President of the United States Compromise of 1850 13th President of the United States Presidency Inauguration Federal judges appointed Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 Swamp Land Act of 1850 Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 An Act for the Admission of the State of California Fillmore, Utah Millard County, Utah Illinois Central Railroad Perry Expedition Electoral history 1844 Whig National Convention 1844 New York state election 1848 Whig National Convention 1848 United States presidential election 1852 Whig National Convention 1856 American National Convention 1856 Whig National Convention 1856 United States presidential election Legacy Fillmore Street Statue of Millard Fillmore
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The Fillmore House, or Millard Fillmore House, is a historic house museum at 24 Shearer Avenue in East Aurora in Erie County, New York. Built in 1826, it was from then until 1830 the residence of the 13th president of the United States, Millard Fillmore. Moved twice and significantly altered, it is the only surviving building other than the White House associated with Fillmore's life. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1974.^[2][3] The house is owned by the Aurora Historical Society and has been decorated with period furnishings. As of 2022, it is open for tours by reservation only.^[4]

The Fillmore House stands on the east side of Shearer Avenue north of Main Street, west of the village center of East Aurora. It is a 1+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. A shed-roof porch with round columns extends across the three-bay front facade. A brick chimney rises on the right side, and a series of single-story ells, not original to the building, extend to the rear. The building is not architecturally distinguished.^[3]

Millard Fillmore built this house in 1826 on a property on Main Street. Fillmore had just married, and established a law practice with an office (no longer extant) across the road. Fillmore's son was born in this house before the Fillmores moved to Buffalo in 1830. After the Fillmore occupancy, the building had multiple owners and multiple additions made to it. In 1915, it was moved further back on its original lot to make room for a theater. At that site it was abandoned and fell into decay until 1930, when it was rescued by Margaret and Irving Price.^[3] They moved the original core of the building to its current location and oversaw its restoration for use as a home and artist's studio for Margaret. It was acquired by the Aurora Historical Society in 1975, and restored in appearance to the period of Fillmore's ownership.^[4]

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  The Fillmore House, 1976.
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  Another view of the house
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  Millard Fillmore House 2017

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fillmore House.

• Aurora Historical Society
• National Park Service site on Fillmore House
• "Millard Fillmore", by John T. Horton, Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society, Adventures in Western New York History, volume II, 1960, (downloadable from http://bechsed.nylearns.org/, click on Adventures in WNY History)
• "Life Portrait of Millard Fillmore", from C-SPAN's American Presidents: Life Portraits, broadcast from Fillmore House, June 11, 1999