Tinkertown

Tinkertown is a hamlet in Alfred, Allegany County, New York. Tinkertown is situated nearby to the hamlet Alfred Station, as well as near Tip Top.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Terra Cotta Building and Stull Observatory.

Terra Cotta Building

Museum

Photo: Kkirschn, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Terra Cotta Building is a historic building built by the Celadon Terra Cotta Company at Alfred, New York in 1892. The structure is a one-story, 16-foot-wide, 25-foot-deep building built almost entirely of bricks, architectural terracotta, and roofing tiles manufactured by the company.

Stull Observatory

Observatory

Stull Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Alfred University located in Alfred, New York and named after John Stull, who helped establish the observatory in 1966.

Allen Steinheim Museum

Building

Photo: Bdesham, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Allen Steinheim Museum is a historic building and former museum located on the campus of Alfred University at Alfred in Allegany County, New York. It is a crenellated stone structure built from 1876 to 1880 to house the "mineral, geological, natural, and man-made curiosities" of Alfred University's second president Jonathan Allen.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Alfred and Hartsville.

Alfred

Photo: Bdesham, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Alfred, the home of Alfred University is a small town in Allegany County in the Southern Tier of New York.

Hartsville

Hamlet

Hartsville is a town in Steuben County, New York, United States. The population was 561 at the 2020 census. The town is named after a prominent early settler, Reuben Hart. The Town of Hartsville is on the county's western border and is south of Hornell. Hartsville is situated 4 miles east of Tinkertown.

Tinkertown

Type: Hamlet
Category: locality
Location: Alfred, Allegany County, Southern Tier, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

42.26785° or 42° 16′ 4″ north

Longitude

-77.76777° or 77° 46′ 4″ west

Elevation

1,591 feet (485 metres)

Open location code

87J4769J+4V

OpenStreetMap ID

node 158409331

OpenStreetMap feature

place=hamlet

GeoNames ID

5141038

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