{"nrhp_refnum":"03001280","name":"Mosher Farmstead","other_names":["Brightside Farms"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"1016 Sherwood Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Aurora","county":"Cayuga County","state":"NY","lat":42.757649226500064,"lon":-76.67204476990935,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-12-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 178.9-acre working farm on Sherwood Road, about three miles east of Aurora in the town of Ledyard, Cayuga County, New York. It was established in the 1880s and includes a farmhouse and seven agricultural buildings, with a tenant house that does not contribute.","why_significant":"It is a largely intact collection of late nineteenth and early twentieth century farm buildings, led by a very large U-shaped, gambrel-roofed dairy barn built in 1907 and rebuilt in 1921 after a fire. It is also tied to the dairy history of the Finger Lakes region through Brightside Farms, a locally known producer of Register of Merit Jersey dairy products. Criterion C covers the buildings, and Criterion A covers dairy farming.","narrative":"Mosher Farmstead is a 178.9-acre farm along Sherwood Road east of Aurora, in the town of Ledyard. Its buildings stand on the south side of the road: a late nineteenth century farmhouse, a tenant house, and seven agricultural buildings. The farm began around 1887, when E. W. Mosher bought a large farm. In 1907 he built a massive U-shaped, gambrel-roofed dairy barn and opened Brightside Farms, known for milk and cream from registered Jersey cattle. After a fire in 1921, his son R. E. Mosher rebuilt the complex to the original plans. Large-scale dairying ended with his death in 1923. The barn still holds original hay tracks, ventilation shafts, metal stanchions, water cups, cork-tile flooring and feed carts. A calf barn, bull barn, machine shed, shop and two chicken houses also survive. The property was listed for its intact agricultural architecture and its link to Finger Lakes dairy farming.","period_of_significance":"1880s - ca. 1921","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late 19th/early 20th century: vernacular","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still in agricultural use; the farm remains in the Mosher family, and large-scale dairying ended in the early 1920s. The farmhouse has been altered but retains its form, and the tenant house has lost integrity through extensive alterations.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:52.592817-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/03001280.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03001280/60ef0fb6ff-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03001280/60ef0fb6ff-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Lvklock","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MosherFarmstead.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:MosherFarmstead.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75316719","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosher_Farmstead","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6916204"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/cayuga-county/mosher-farmstead-03001280/"}