{"nrhp_refnum":"01001565","name":"Tousley-Church House","other_names":["DAR House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"249 N. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Albion","county":"Orleans County","state":"NY","lat":43.252694967000025,"lon":-78.19319278899997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-02-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A brick Greek Revival house at 249 North Main Street in the village of Albion, Orleans County, New York, built in two phases: about 1840 for the rear and south wings, and about 1850 for the main block and porticos.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a distinguished example of Greek Revival domestic architecture in Albion under Criterion C. It retains a high level of integrity, with details closely resembling designs published by Minard Lafever. The 1840s rear wing also keeps an early cooking fireplace, oven and other domestic features. It later served as a chapter house for the Daughters of the American Revolution.","narrative":"Built in two phases around 1840 and 1850, this one-and-one-half-story brick house stands at the corner of North Main Street and Linwood Avenue in Albion, a village on the Erie Canal. The main block has a hip roof, a massive wood cornice with fret-grilled frieze windows, and an Ionic entrance portico. Inside, a switchback stair with a carved acanthus newel rises on four Doric columns, and black marble mantels and elaborate door and window surrounds survive. A wood-frame rear wing from about 1840 keeps an early cooking fireplace and baking oven. The house was listed for its architecture, as a distinguished local example of Greek Revival design whose details closely resemble pattern-book work by Minard Lafever. Canal-era prosperity paid for such residences. Sanford Church, later a New York Lieutenant Governor and judge, grew up here. In 1929 the property passed to the Daughters of the American Revolution, which altered the interior in 1930 and still uses it.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1840-ca. 1930","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century / Greek Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Used as a clubhouse by the Orleans Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and Historical Society, which has occupied it since 1929-30. A carriage barn and three small outbuildings no longer exist.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.656692-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/01001565.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01001565/6c4a74cf1d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01001565/6c4a74cf1d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tousley-Church_House,_Albion,_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tousley-Church_House,_Albion,_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320821","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tousley-Church_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7829393"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/orleans-county/tousley-church-house-01001565/"}