{"nrhp_refnum":"10000362","name":"Norton Village Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Norton St., Norton Village Ln, Village Way, and Veteran St","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rochester","county":"Monroe County","state":"NY","lat":43.18672090950005,"lon":-77.5662554559017,"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 district of 144 two-story, two-unit brick garden apartment buildings (288 units) on an 18-acre site in northeast Rochester, Monroe County, New York, completed in 1949 as veterans' rental housing.","why_significant":"The complex is argued to be an intact post-World War II veterans' garden apartment development, representing the model promoted by the Federal Housing Administration. It is tied to the Rochester Plan, a local private and public effort to provide low-rent housing for veterans and their families. Its site plan reflects Garden City Movement principles, and its buildings show restrained Colonial Revival design.","narrative":"Norton Village is a planned garden apartment complex on an 18-acre site in northeast Rochester, built in 1949 to house returning veterans and their families. It holds 144 two-story brick buildings, each with two units, for 288 apartments in all. Buildings are grouped in L-shaped and U-shaped clusters around lawns and play areas, with curving sidewalks kept separate from the streets. Buildings cover about 30 percent of the land, and the rest is landscaped open space, walks, parking and play areas. Each building looks like a single-family house, and cast-stone Colonial Revival entrance surrounds distinguish one from another. It was the third project of the Rochester Plan, in which local firms and the city created a private, non-profit corporation to build low-rent veterans' housing with an insured federal mortgage, on land supplied by the city. Architect Herbert S. Williamson designed it. It was listed for its architecture and for what it shows about postwar housing and community planning.","period_of_significance":"1949","architect_builder":"Herbert S. Williamson","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Historic and current function are both multiple dwelling; three noncontributing buildings (recreation center, maintenance shop, management headquarters) stand on the property.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:48.882357-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/10000362.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000362/9f74d97fc7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000362/9f74d97fc7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"DanielPenfield","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NortonVillage10And12VillageWay.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:NortonVillage10And12VillageWay.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313622","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Village_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7060698"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/monroe-county/norton-village-historic-district-10000362/"}