This nineteenth-century farm complex, located just south end of the hamlet of Alloway, includes a Greek Revival style farmhouse, two large barns, carriage house, corncrib, smokehouse, stone retaining wall, and hitching post. Operated by the Towar and Ennis families during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, nearly the full assortment of historic elements survive intact - the only lost structures being a chicken house and outhouse. Canandaigua Outlet flows north along the west border of the property.

The two-story, Greek Revival style farmhouse was built in 1832, with a one and one-half-story addition constructed in 1852. Framed of heavy timber, originally sided with clapboard, the house rests on a fieldstone foundation.

Alloway was settled when 23-year-old Henry Towar laid claim to several hundred acres of prime land along the fast-flowing Canandaigua Outlet and at least two of its tributaries. In 1794, Towar erected the area’s first grist mill. Towar was a sub-agent for Sir Charles A. Williamson, the land agent in charge of surveying, building roads, selling, and/or settling all areas of the Pultney Estate in the Finger Lakes Region during the late eighteenth century.

It is unknown where Towar lived between 1794 and 1832. In 1832, the patriarch of the Alloway community built his large and fashionable Greek Revival style dwelling. Towar died in 1846, and the property was acquired the following year by Robert Ennis who enlarged the farmhouse in 1852. Most of the other farm complex’s buildings were constructed by Ennis and his descendants.

Ennis and wife, Mary, had six children. When Robert died in 1860, eldest son, George, took over the farm. The farm remained in the Ennis family for several more generations. In 1954, the farm was designated as a “Century Farm.” Upon the death of Robert’s great grandson, George Ennis, in 1975, the property was sold to Duane and Edythe Gansz. The couple worked diligently to restored and maintain the property, living on the site for twenty years, and named the estate “Toganenwood” – an acronym of the three owners’ names – Towar, Gansz, and Ennis. Now operated as the Toganenwood Estate Barn Weddings and Events Center, the beautiful historic grounds and buildings can be enjoyed by the public for special events.