{"nrhp_refnum":"09000655","name":"Linden-South Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"25-272 Linden St., both sides; 809-835 South Ave., odd numbers only","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rochester","county":"Monroe County","state":"NY","lat":43.14072156550006,"lon":-77.60937834886289,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-08-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district of 136 buildings along both sides of Linden Street and the west side of South Avenue in the South Wedge neighborhood of Rochester, New York, built mostly between 1872 and 1913, largely by the Ellwanger & Barry Realty Company.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the district as a cohesive group of late Victorian and early post-Victorian houses and one church, representing styles popular during the neighborhood's development. Many of the houses were designed by local architects, including Warner & Brockett, Otis & Crandall and Claude Bragdon, employed by Ellwanger & Barry. Groupings such as the Gothic Revival cottages and the brick Queen Anne houses on South Avenue are singled out as architecturally important.","narrative":"Linden-South Historic District is a compact residential area in the South Wedge neighborhood of Rochester, about a mile south of downtown. It takes in 136 buildings along Linden Street and the west side of South Avenue, including a former Baptist church now used as a Greek Orthodox church. Most are two- and two-and-one-half-story houses built between 1872 and 1913 on narrow lots with shallow, uniform setbacks. The Ellwanger & Barry Realty Company developed much of the area and often rented houses for years before selling them to tenants. It hired local architects such as Warner & Brockett, Otis & Crandall and Claude Bragdon, so the houses are largely architect-designed. Styles range from Gothic Revival cottages with pierced verge boards to exuberant Queen Anne and Stick examples and a group of brick Queen Anne houses with Shingle and Richardsonian touches on South Avenue. Some houses have later siding, but they keep enough original detail and massing to contribute to the district.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Ellwanger & Barry Realty Company (developer); architects Warner & Brockett, Otis & Crandall, Walker & Briggs, Walker & Nichols, W. C. Walker, W. J. Brockett, and Claude Bragdon","architectural_style":"Late 19th and early 20th century American Movements; Late Gothic Revival, with Italianate, Queen Anne, Stick, Shingle, Romanesque, American Foursquare and Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Current use is still mainly single dwellings and a religious facility; some houses have been re-sided but are still counted as contributing.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:48.189646-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/09000655.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000655/d6def9285f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000655/d6def9285f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Tim Pierce","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linden-South_Historic_District.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Tim Pierce</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linden-South_Historic_District.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"74001261","name":"Mount. Hope-Highland Historic District (Additional Documentation)","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/mount-hope-highland-historic-district-additional-documentation-74001261/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318864","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linden%E2%80%93South_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6552267"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/monroe-county/linden-south-historic-district-09000655/"}