{"nrhp_refnum":"10000898","name":"East Side Presbyterian Church","other_names":["East Side Memorial Presbyterian Church","Parsells Avenue Community Church"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"345 Parsells Ave","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rochester","county":"Monroe County","state":"NY","lat":43.165524394000045,"lon":-77.56942646699997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2010-11-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A brick Romanesque Revival church at 345 Parsells Avenue in the Beechwood section of northeast Rochester, New York. It was built in two stages: an education wing in 1909 and the main church with a tower in 1925-26.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the church is architecturally significant as an intact, representative example of simple Romanesque Revival/Byzantine-inspired Arts and Crafts design applied to a neighborhood church. Its two building phases also reflect the early twentieth-century growth of the Beechwood neighborhood and the continued popularity of Romanesque modes for churches.","narrative":"Standing at the southeast corner of Parsells Avenue and Denver Street in Rochester's Beechwood neighborhood, this church was built in two phases. A two-story education wing went up in 1909 as the original church, and the larger Romanesque Revival sanctuary was added in 1925-26 by the Rochester firm of Bohacket and Brew. The sanctuary is faced in variegated red, dark gray and black brick, with cast stone trim, a slate and shingle roof, and a tall engaged tower with an octagonal cupola. A three-bay arcade with Byzantine-style capitals marks the entrance, and stained glass windows carry paired Christian symbols across the nave. Inside, the narthex has a marble floor and vaulted ceiling, with Arts and Crafts woodwork and ironwork. The congregation was founded in 1900-1901 as the twelfth Presbyterian church in the city, when streetcar expansion brought rapid residential growth to the area. The building is valued as an intact example of simple Romanesque and Byzantine-inspired Arts and Crafts design for a neighborhood church.","period_of_significance":"1909-1926","architect_builder":"Herbert L. Larzalere; Herbert H. Bohacket and Lewis Brew (Bohacket and Brew)","architectural_style":"Romanesque; Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a religious facility; the tower has served as a cable broadcasting transmission site since the 1990s.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:47.87109-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/10000898.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000898/855a111caf-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000898/855a111caf-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EAST_SIDE_PRESBYTERIAN_CHURCH,_ROCHESTER,_MONROE_COUNTY,_NY.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:EAST_SIDE_PRESBYTERIAN_CHURCH,_ROCHESTER,_MONROE_COUNTY,_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318800","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Side_Presbyterian_Church","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5329378"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/monroe-county/east-side-presbyterian-church-10000898/"}