{"nrhp_refnum":"01001495","name":"Mills, Harriet May, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1074 W. Genesee St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Syracuse","county":"Onondaga County","state":"NY","lat":43.05397687100003,"lon":-76.17348444799995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-01-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick Italianate house at 1074 West Genesee Street in Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York, built in 1858 for Charles de Berard Mills and his family.","why_significant":"The house is argued to be significant under Criterion A for its association with abolitionism, woman's rights and the suffrage movement, and under Criterion B for its links to Harriet May Mills, her father Charles de Berard Mills and her mother Harriet Anna Smith Mills. Harriet May Mills was a prominent suffrage leader, president of the New York State suffrage association from 1910, and the first woman to run for state office for a major party. The home hosted leading abolitionists and later served as the state suffrage headquarters.","narrative":"Built in 1858 on a rise at the corner of West Genesee and Liberty Streets in Syracuse, this two-story brick Italianate house was home to the Mills family for nearly ninety years. Charles de Berard Mills, a bookkeeper at the Syracuse Nursery, and his wife Harriet Smith Mills were committed abolitionists who welcomed figures such as Samuel J. May, Gerrit Smith and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Their daughter, Harriet May Mills, born in 1857, became a leading suffragist. She served as president of the New York State suffrage association from 1910, worked with Susan B. Anthony, and in 1920 became the first woman to run for state office for a major party. The state suffrage headquarters was set up in the house in 1900. The house became a hardware store in the 1940s and is now vacant. It lost its porches and had interior changes, but it keeps its brick walls, bracketed eaves and curved entry staircase.","period_of_significance":"1858 - 1935","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":["A","B"],"status_note":"Converted to a hardware store in the 1940s; currently vacant, with porches removed and interior altered, though it retains a high degree of integrity.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.811267-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/01001495.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01001495/de7a8a9368-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01001495/de7a8a9368-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Doncram","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HarriettMayMillsHouse_Dec2007_front.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doncram</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:HarriettMayMillsHouse_Dec2007_front.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320390","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_May_Mills_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14706319"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/onondaga-county/mills-harriet-may-house-01001495/"}