{"nrhp_refnum":"09000557","name":"Entranceway at Main Street at LeBrun Road","other_names":[],"category":"structure","location":{"address":"Main St. at LeBrun Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Amherst","county":"Erie County","state":"NY","lat":42.96620169100004,"lon":-78.79747672499997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-07-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Landscape Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A suburban subdivision entranceway of brick walls, posts and light fixtures on the south side of Main Street at LeBrun Road in Amherst, Erie County, New York, built in the 1920s for the Amherst Estates development.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is an intact and relatively rare entranceway tied to the growth of rural Amherst into a residential suburb of Buffalo, and to the national trend of suburbanization. It also embodies the type of entranceway used by developers of the period as a marketing and planning feature, and it contributes to the landscape design of the Main Street corridor.","narrative":"Two symmetrical brick entrance structures flank LeBrun Road where it meets Main Street (Route 5) in Eggertsville, part of Amherst, New York. Each has a tall hexagonal brick post in stacked bond, topped with a cast concrete capital and a metal-and-glass lantern, plus a half-height curved wall ending in a lower matching post. They were built in the 1920s to mark Amherst Estates, an upscale subdivision laid out by Buffalo realtors R.W. Goode and G.H. Sickles, with 180 lots of one to five acres. Developers of the era used such gateways to suggest established country estates and to attract affluent buyers leaving Buffalo. The entranceway is cited as a relatively rare, intact example tied to the suburban growth of Amherst and to wider American suburbanization, and as part of a group of street furniture along Main Street. A central roadway feature has been removed, and the structures are in poor condition, but they still mark the subdivision entrance.","period_of_significance":"c.1920","architect_builder":"Goode & Sickels, Realtors","architectural_style":"Late 19th and Early 20th Century Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Described as in poor condition due to damage and lack of maintenance and repair, though it still serves its original function of marking the entrance to a residential subdivision.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:47.884676-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/09000557.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000557/72e270225e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000557/72e270225e-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Pubdog (talk)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Entranceway_at_Main_Street_at_LeBrun_Road_Apr_10.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Pubdog (talk)</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Entranceway_at_Main_Street_at_LeBrun_Road_Apr_10.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75312787","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entranceway_at_Main_Street_at_LeBrun_Road","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5380680"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/erie-county/entranceway-at-main-street-at-lebrun-road-09000557/"}