{"nrhp_refnum":"02001653","name":"Tall Maples Miniature Golf Course","other_names":["Parkside Whispering Pines Miniature Golf Course"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"4083 Culver Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sea Breeze","county":"Monroe County","state":"NY","lat":43.22851977800008,"lon":-77.54683041999994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-12-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Entertainment/Recreation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"An 18-hole miniature golf course with a ticket booth and restroom building on a 0.26-acre parcel on Culver Road in Sea Breeze, in the Town of Irondequoit, Monroe County, New York. It was built in 1930.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the course is a highly intact and extremely rare survivor from miniature golf's first wave of popularity around 1930. It keeps the typical early features: a mechanized windmill, wood bumpers, rustic rock-garden detailing, overhead lighting and a bottomless final hole. It is also one of the few remaining elements of Sea Breeze's once-thriving recreation area and the last surviving course by builder Robert G. Ocorr.","narrative":"Tall Maples Miniature Golf Course is an 18-hole course on a small corner lot on Culver Road in Sea Breeze, in Irondequoit, New York. Built in 1930 by Paul Moore with his sons Nelson and Dayne and course builder Robert G. Ocorr, it includes a wood ticket booth and a small restroom building. The holes use wood curbs, low natural rock borders and exposed-aggregate concrete in a rustic style, with hazards such as a motorized windmill, dog-leg fairways, bi-level holes and a lighthouse folly. Mature conifers shade the course, and lights hang from wires strung through the trees. Little has changed apart from new playing surfaces and in-kind replacement of worn curbs. The course was listed because it is a rare, intact survivor from the miniature golf craze of 1930, the last of several courses laid out by Ocorr, and one of few reminders of Sea Breeze's heyday as a lakeshore amusement center. It is still open to players today.","period_of_significance":"1930-1950","architect_builder":"Robert Ocorr; Paul, Nelson and Dayne Moore","architectural_style":"OTHER","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Remains in active use as a local miniature golf course; the original greens were resurfaced with outdoor carpeting and deteriorated wood curbs were replaced in kind.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.110795-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/02001653.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001653/4a6e1d247e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001653/4a6e1d247e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"LtPowers","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Parkside_Whispering_Pines_01.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">LtPowers</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:Parkside_Whispering_Pines_01.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318952","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkside_Whispering_Pines","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7138718"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/monroe-county/tall-maples-miniature-golf-course-02001653/"}