{"nrhp_refnum":"10000360","name":"Fernwood Park Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Bounded by Fernwood Ave, Woodman Park, Culver Rd, and Waring Rd","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rochester","county":"Monroe County","state":"NY","lat":43.18000985650005,"lon":-77.56213553404022,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2010-06-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 10-acre district of 38 two-story, four-unit garden apartment buildings (152 units) with garages and a play area, in the northeast part of Rochester, Monroe County, New York, built in 1947.","why_significant":"It is an intact post-World War II veterans' garden apartment complex and the first of three projects built under the Rochester Plan, in which local banks and the city provided low-rent housing for veterans. It illustrates Garden City Movement principles and the Federal Housing Administration's leading garden apartment model. It is also a vernacular Colonial Revival design by architect C. Storrs Barrows with landscaping by Francis Hastings Gott.","narrative":"Fernwood Park is a 1947 garden apartment complex on a triangular 10-acre plot in northeast Rochester. It holds 38 two-story brick and vinyl-clad buildings with four units each, 152 apartments in all, arranged in three clusters around lawns, walkways and a children's play area. Each apartment has its own entrance, and the buildings are offset so that rooms receive light and air. The complex was the first of three projects under the Rochester Plan, a postwar effort in which eight local banks formed a non-profit corporation to build low-rent housing for veterans on city-provided land, financed by an FHA-insured mortgage. Architect C. Storrs Barrows designed the vernacular Colonial Revival buildings, and landscape architect Francis Hastings Gott planned the grounds. Buildings and landscaping take up roughly 30 percent of the site, leaving 70 percent as green space. Its design reflects Garden City Movement ideas and the federal garden apartment model, which is why it is recognized for both its planning and its architecture.","period_of_significance":"1947","architect_builder":"C. Storrs Barrows (architect, Carpenter and Barrows); Francis Hastings Gott (landscape architect)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still used as multiple dwellings; the windows are replacements, much of the siding is now vinyl, and a community center was added in 2008.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:48.117058-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/10000360.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000360/8809271f2f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000360/8809271f2f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"DanielPenfield","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FernwoodPark.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">DanielPenfield</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:FernwoodPark.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313620","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernwood_Park_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5445159"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/monroe-county/fernwood-park-historic-district-10000360/"}