{"nrhp_refnum":"02001114","name":"Taylor, Emma Flower, Mansion","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"241 Clinton St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Watertown","county":"Jefferson County","state":"NY","lat":43.97231183200006,"lon":-75.91742888799996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-10-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-a-half-story Queen Anne style sandstone mansion at 241 Clinton Street (originally 25 Clinton) in Watertown, Jefferson County, New York, built 1896-1897 and designed by the New York City firm Lamb & Rich.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the mansion is a high-style, architect-designed example of Queen Anne architecture, a type rarely built in masonry and seldom surviving. It also blends Shingle Style and Richardsonian Romanesque elements into a distinctive design by Charles Rich. It was built as a wedding gift from Roswell Pettibone Flower for his daughter Emma and her husband John Taylor, a local utilities figure.","narrative":"Built in 1896-1897 at what is now 241 Clinton Street in Watertown, this massive Queen Anne mansion was a wedding gift from Roswell Pettibone Flower to his daughter Emma, who married John Taylor. The New York City firm Lamb & Rich designed it, and local contractor Patrick Phillips oversaw construction. Walls are rock-faced Medina sandstone, hand-cut on site, beneath a steeply pitched tiled roof with many dormers, a conical-roofed tower, wraparound porches and a porte-cochere. A kitchen wing was commissioned in 1900. The nomination notes that few Queen Anne houses were built mainly of masonry, and that architect Charles Rich mixed in Shingle Style and Richardsonian Romanesque details, including hipped dormers and a round-arched entrance. In 1940 the house became eight apartments, with care taken to keep woodwork, fireplaces, coffered ceilings and other interior features. The property once covered nearly three acres and now occupies 1.2 acres.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Lamb & Rich (architects, New York City); Patrick Phillips (local contractor)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Queen Anne","criteria":[],"status_note":"Converted in 1940 into eight luxury apartments; the form lists current use as multiple dwelling and describes the building as retaining a high level of integrity.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.926739-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/02001114.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001114/9fcd4cdd63-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001114/9fcd4cdd63-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Lvklock","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emma_Flower_Taylor_Mansion_052613_005.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Lvklock</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:Emma_Flower_Taylor_Mansion_052613_005.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318286","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Flower_Taylor_Mansion","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5372799"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/jefferson-county/taylor-emma-flower-mansion-02001114/"}