{"nrhp_refnum":"10000104","name":"Sweet Briar","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"5126 Mount Morris Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Geneseo","county":"Livingston County","state":"NY","lat":42.77168775150005,"lon":-77.83273284744072,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2010-03-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Sweet Briar is a country estate on a 246-acre parcel between NY Route 63 and the Genesee River in Geneseo, Livingston County, New York. Its main house is a large two and one-half story frame mansion built in the late 1890s, with outbuildings and a chapel.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the estate is a highly intact example of a major country place in the Genesee Valley, built when the area was a center of horse breeding and fox hunting. It combines Colonial Revival and Arts & Crafts elements. It is also tied to the Genesee Valley Hunt, the Wadsworth family, and later owners such as the Chanlers.","narrative":"Sweet Briar is a country estate on the eastern palisade above the Genesee River, just south of Geneseo. The main house is a two and one-half story clapboard building with a hipped roof, a U-shaped plan, and a covered courtyard with a Tuscan colonnade. Inside, Arts & Crafts fireplaces, paneled rooms, and a dining room mural of valley scenes stand out. Outbuildings include a ca. 1940 stable, two tenant houses, gate posts, a fountain, and the Chapel of Saint Felicitas, built in 1913 for the Chanler family. The estate was assembled in 1896 from the Sweet Briar and Fall Brook farms, once linked to Horatio Jones, and was built for George Austen. Later owner Winthrop Astor Chanler led the Genesee Valley Hunt. The designer is uncertain; Austen may have designed the house himself. The property is significant for architecture and social history as a well-preserved example of Gilded Age hunt-country life in the Genesee Valley.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1898 - ca. 1950","architect_builder":"George Austen (?)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival, Arts & Crafts, Classical Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Current functions listed are single dwelling and health care/resort; the form notes the chapel was moved about 100 yards around 1980 and that the interior remains largely intact.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:48.674802-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/10000104.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000104/378242d19b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000104/378242d19b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SWEET_BRIAR,_GENESEO,_LIVINGSTON_COUNTY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SWEET_BRIAR,_GENESEO,_LIVINGSTON_COUNTY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318692","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Briar_(Geneseo,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7655240"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/livingston-county/sweet-briar-10000104/"}