{"nrhp_refnum":"09000558","name":"Entranceway at Main Street at Westfield Road and Ivyhurst Road","other_names":[],"category":"structure","location":{"address":"Main St. at Westfield Rd. and Ivyhurst Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Amherst","county":"Erie County","state":"NY","lat":42.966359046000036,"lon":-78.80140967099999,"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":"Two matching stone subdivision entranceways on the north side of Main Street (NY Route 5) at Westfield Road and Ivyhurst Road in the Town of Amherst, Erie County, New York, built in the 1920s for the Hollywood Subdivision by developer John Sattler.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the entranceways are intact and relatively rare examples of early twentieth-century suburban subdivision entrances. They reflect Amherst's change from a rural town into a residential suburb of Buffalo, and the wider national growth of suburbs linked to transportation. They also embody the entranceway as a structure type tied to a period of community planning and landscape design.","narrative":"Two matching stone entranceways mark the entrances to a residential subdivision on the north side of Main Street in Amherst, New York, at Westfield Road and Ivyhurst Road. Each consists of curved, quarter-height random ashlar stone walls with small square stone posts topped by poured concrete pyramid caps, cast coping and flared buttresses. Light fixtures once crowned the posts, but most are now missing. Built in the 1920s for the Hollywood Subdivision by developer John Sattler, they remain in their original location and still mark the vehicle and pedestrian entrance. Hollywood was aimed at working-class families. They are valued as rare, intact examples of how developers used stone walls and gateposts to give new subdivisions the look of established estates, and as evidence of Amherst's growth into a Buffalo suburb as automobiles and trolley lines spread. They belong to a wider group of street furniture along the Main Street corridor. Both are in fair condition, with missing and fractured stones.","period_of_significance":"c.1920","architect_builder":"Goode & Sickels, Realtors (listed in the form); John Sattler built the entranceways for his Hollywood Subdivision; designers not determined","architectural_style":"Late 19th and Early 20th Century Revivals","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Fair condition, with several missing and fractured stones and missing light fixtures; still serving their original function of marking the subdivision entrance.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:48.374738-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/09000558.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000558/f68f0856ac-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000558/f68f0856ac-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Pubdog (talk)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Entranceway_at_Main_Street_at_Westfield_Road_and_Ivyhurst_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_Westfield_Road_and_Ivyhurst_Road_Apr_10.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75312789","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entranceway_at_Main_Street_at_Westfield_Road_and_Ivyhurst_Road","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5380682"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/erie-county/entranceway-at-main-street-at-westfield-road-and-ivyhurst-road-09000558/"}