{"nrhp_refnum":"00000093","name":"Millar-Wheeler House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1423 Genesee St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Utica","county":"Oneida County","state":"NY","lat":43.09528418300005,"lon":-75.24331554799994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-02-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story brick Italianate-style house at 1423 Genesee Street in Utica, Oneida County, New York, built in 1866 by contractor Ambrose G. Howard, on a two-acre lot with a contributing iron fence.","why_significant":"It is considered a highly intact and distinguished example of large-scale High Victorian Italianate residential architecture in Utica, and the most elaborate surviving example of its type and period in the city. It was the home of Charles Millar, a prominent Utica pipe-foundry industrialist, and reflects the wealth of the city's industrial peak.","narrative":"Set back from Genesee Street on a two-acre lot of lawn and shade trees, this three-story brick house in Utica was built in 1866 by local contractor Ambrose G. Howard. It has a hipped roof with broad eaves, a belvedere with iron cresting, bracketed cornices, an ornate entrance portico and cast iron window lintels. Inside, a wide center hall, a walnut staircase, marble mantels and plaster cove moldings survive. Charles Millar, who ran pipe foundries serving Utica's boiler and textile industries, bought the house in 1870, and his family owned it until 1912. Later owners converted much of it to apartments in the early 1940s. It stood vacant from the late 1970s and faced demolition before a 1996 purchase led to restoration. Listed for architecture, it is regarded as the most elaborate surviving Italianate residence in Utica and a landmark of the city's once-fashionable upper Genesee Street.","period_of_significance":"1866","architect_builder":"Ambrose G. Howard (builder)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Italianate","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Restored after standing vacant from the late 1970s and being threatened with demolition; now a private residence and bed-and-breakfast inn.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:51.183927-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/00000093.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000093/f6405e541b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000093/f6405e541b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Lvklock","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MillarWheelerHouse.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Lvklock</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MillarWheelerHouse.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320229","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millar-Wheeler_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6858487"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/oneida-county/millar-wheeler-house-00000093/"}