Morgan-Manning House /

The Morgan-Manning House is an historic house located in Brockport, Monroe County, New York. It was built in 1854 and is a two story, Italianate style brick dwelling on a limestone foundation. The five bay by four bay main block features a hipped roof and cupola. It has a two story hipped roof wing with a smaller two story brick appendage creating a stepped, or telescoping, plan or profile. The house also has a full width porch with brick piers. The interior features elaborate interior woodwork, period plasterwork, stained glass and decorated ceilings. Also on the property is a contributing carriage house. The home was originally built for John C.Ostrom and was purchased in 1867 by Dayton S. Morgan and his wife Susan Jocelyn Morgan. Dayton Morgan was a local industrialist whose foundry, the Globe Iron Works, produced the first hundred mechanized reapers for Cyrus McCormick. Mr Morgan went on to produce his own very successful mechanized reapers with business partner William Seymour. The house remained in the Morgan family for almost the next hundred years. The Morgan family remodeled many of the rooms on the main floor of the house in the late Victorian style, embellishing the