{"nrhp_refnum":"04001452","name":"Jefferson Apartment Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"250 Rainbow Blvd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Niagara Falls","county":"Niagara County","state":"NY","lat":43.086075176000065,"lon":-79.05905377299996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-01-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"An eight-story masonry apartment building at 250 Rainbow Boulevard in Niagara Falls, New York, built in 1926 to designs by Kirkpatrick and Cannon and constructed by Wright and Kremers.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is architecturally significant as a representative early 20th century apartment building for middle and upper income residents. It is the city's only high-rise, full-service apartment building of that era. It is also tied historically to prominent local residents who lived there for nearly 80 years.","narrative":"Rising eight stories at 250 Rainbow Boulevard in Niagara Falls, this 1926 apartment building combines a steel frame and reinforced concrete floors with buff tapestry brick, white stone trim and a raised stone basement. Its detailing mixes English Gothic Revival hood moldings, medallions and wrought iron with Colonial Revival fanlights, pilasters and multi-paned windows. Inside are a slate-floored lobby with a strap work ceiling, a stone stair, original elevators and brass mailboxes. It holds 98 apartments in five layouts, from studios to two-bedroom units. Kirkpatrick and Cannon designed it and Wright and Kremers built it, on the site of a razed 1850s house. It is the city's only high-rise, full-service apartment building from the early twentieth century, since the Depression ended such construction there. Tenants over nearly eighty years included local business, theatre and civic figures. It remains in residential use.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1926","architect_builder":"Kirkpatrick and Cannon (architects); Wright and Kremers (builders)","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Late Gothic Revival, Colonial Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still in use as multiple dwelling apartments; the former basement entertainment room, converted to an apartment, is undergoing change for a new use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.398192-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/04001452.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001452/3c06744b32-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001452/3c06744b32-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Pubdog (talk)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jefferson_Apartment_Building_Jun_09.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Pubdog (talk)</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jefferson_Apartment_Building_Jun_09.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320114","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Apartment_Building_(Niagara_Falls,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6175360"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/niagara-county/jefferson-apartment-building-04001452/"}