The district includes 21 properties located in the hamlet of Covert.

The district is primarily residential and structures represent a variety of functions and styles spanning the period from 1810 to 1920.

The earliest structure was built as a tavern and it also includes the Town Hall, First Baptist Church (and cemetery), a modest schoolhouse, and Grange Meeting Hall.

[2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

This article about a historic property or district in Seneca County, New York, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is a stub.