{"nrhp_refnum":"05001381","name":"Penfield Road Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"1862-1895 Penfield Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Penfield","county":"Monroe County","state":"NY","lat":43.13066593100004,"lon":-77.46827294068713,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-12-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential and religious historic district of 13 acres along Penfield Road (1862-1895) in the hamlet of Penfield, Monroe County, New York, made up of former farm properties with buildings dating from 1816 to 1937.","why_significant":"The district is argued to be architecturally significant for its concentration of intact nineteenth-century houses and a church in Federal, Greek Revival and Italianate styles. It also reflects the change from an agricultural community to an early twentieth-century suburb, with farmhouses, outbuildings and some remaining acreage recalling the area's farming past.","narrative":"Penfield Road Historic District is a 13-acre neighborhood east of the hamlet center of Penfield, New York. It holds 14 contributing buildings, including five nineteenth-century farmhouses on large lots, an early church, and two twentieth-century Colonial Revival houses, one of them a 1937 pre-cut kit house. The earliest building is the Federal-style Henry Fellows House of 1816, later given Neo-classical details. The First Baptist Church, a Greek Revival temple-form building dating from 1839, has a pedimented front and a bell tower. Italianate examples include the 1875 brick Southworth House with its cupola, described as among the finest in the area. The district was listed for architecture because the houses keep a high degree of integrity and show how owners updated homes with later styles. The grounds, with mature trees and a mid-nineteenth-century barn, recall the farms that gave way to suburban development after the 1940s.","period_of_significance":"1816-1937","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early Republic/Federal; Mid-19th Century Greek Revival/Italian Villa; Late 19th and Early 20th Century Revivals/Colonial","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Historic and current uses are single dwellings and a religious facility; some former farm outbuildings are now used for storage or living space.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.146843-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/05001381.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318900","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/monroe-county/penfield-road-historic-district-05001381/"}