{"nrhp_refnum":"08000659","name":"Geneseo Historic District","other_names":["Main Street Historic District","The Homestead","Hartford House"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Historic core and most fashionable area as well as both Wadsworth Estates; The Homeste and Hartford House","address_restricted":false,"city":"Geneseo","county":"Livingston County","state":"NY","lat":42.798584957500054,"lon":-77.81437464047569,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1977-07-17","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1977-07-17","areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large historic district in the village of Geneseo, Livingston County, New York, covering the historic commercial, civic and religious core, ten residential streets, two Wadsworth family estates (the Homestead and Hartford House) and Temple Hill Cemetery, with buildings dating from the 1810s to the 1930s.","why_significant":"The district is the village's only concentration of substantially intact, contiguous historic properties. Its streets show the stages of Geneseo's development through a wide range of styles from Federal to Colonial Revival, and it includes the estates of the prominent Wadsworth family. The expansion adds residential streets, a second Wadsworth estate and a nineteenth-century cemetery to the earlier Main Street district.","narrative":"Geneseo's historic district in Livingston County, New York, enlarges an earlier Main Street district to take in most of the village's best-preserved older areas. It holds the commercial, religious and civic core along Main Street, ten residential streets to the east, two estates of the Wadsworth family (the Homestead and Hartford House) and the fifteen-acre Temple Hill Cemetery, established in 1807. Buildings date from the 1810s to the 1930s, and wood-frame houses predominate. Styles include Federal, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Italian Villa, Second Empire, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival. Individual streets show a consistent period: South and Second Streets hold early Federal and Greek Revival homes, Center Street is the most varied in use, and Oak Street, laid out in 1889, has the largest group of Queen Anne houses. Hartford House, a brick residence of about 1836, is among the more imposing buildings. The boundaries were drawn to leave out altered older structures and modern intrusions, leaving the village's most intact historic fabric.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early Republic-Federal, Mid-19th Century, Late Victorian, Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals","criteria":[],"status_note":"Historic and current uses are both listed as domestic, government, education, religion, funerary and commerce; the document counts 288 contributing and 19 noncontributing buildings.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.324896-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/08000659_NHL.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"85000642","name":"Main Street Historic District (Boundary Increase)","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/main-street-historic-district-boundary-increase-85000642/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315791","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/livingston-county/geneseo-historic-district-08000659/"}