The Honeoye Falls – Town of Mendon Historical Society Museum is located at 1 Harry Allen Park in the Village of Honeoye Falls, right off of the Village Green. With the exception of holiday weekends*, it is open every Sunday from 2pm–4pm. Our phone number: (585) 624-5660.

The museum is located in an historical building – namely the carriage barn of the Wilcox House, an early hotel at the four corners of Honeoye Falls. Read the history of our museum building.

The museum has an excellent display of Native American artifacts dating from the Lomoka Period (2500 BC) through the Iroquois Period when the Seneca inhabited this area. Pioneer days of Honeoye Falls through the present day are well documented depicting the lifestyles of the times since 1791.

The museum hosts a variety of impressive collections that illustrate the story of our town and village. Collections on display include, among other things:

• Memorabilia from local retailers of the past.
• Toys & dolls
• Native American artifacts
• Civil war artifacts
• Period garments
• Local railroad artifacts from the Lehigh Valley and New York Central
• Farming and household displays
• Yearbooks
• Rotating displays covering local industries

Artifact Donation Policy

Are you interested in donating a historic artifact to our museum? Please read our Museum Collection Policy first. Then, when you are ready to donate, please download and complete our official donation form. If you have any questions, please reach out to Curator Bill Lane at fallsman43@yahoo.com or at (585) 694-8236.

About Old Pictures

People often tell us that they have “a bunch of old pictures” they want to share with us. Old pictures can be fascinating! But for the Society’s purpose, they are a burden if we don’t have information about the picture. We will accept a picture if it has something to do with Honeoye Falls or Mendon and the subject of the image (the person, the place, the event, etc.) is identified…the more information, the better. This helps us know where to store it for our files. A picture, no matter how interesting, is not useful to us if we have no reasonable identity of who or what it is. Thank you for your understanding.