{"nrhp_refnum":"100009601","name":"Third Ward Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Adams and Peach Sts., I-490, and both sides of Troup and Fitzhugh Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rochester","county":"Monroe County","state":"NY","lat":43.150278,"lon":-77.615556,"geom_source":"wikidata"},"listed_date":"2023-11-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Ethnic Heritage-Black"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district of about seven blocks (roughly 35 acres) in the inner southwest part of Rochester, Monroe County, New York, bounded by Interstate 490 on the north. It holds about 126 structures and ten vacant lots, mostly brick houses from the 19th century.","why_significant":"The district is described as a well-preserved enclave of Victorian Rochester and a visual record of the city's social history. Between about 1830 and 1880 it was Rochester's choicest residential district, home to millers, lumber merchants, a mayor and other prominent figures. Its Greek Revival and Victorian houses, and a successful rehabilitation effort, keep that character alive.","narrative":"Tucked into the inner southwest corner of Rochester and cut off from downtown by Interstate 490, this seven-block residential district holds about 126 buildings and ten vacant lots. Most are brick houses, ranging from heavy Greek Revival \"temples\" to flamboyant late Victorian villas, with some early twentieth-century apartment buildings. Only a few mid-twentieth-century buildings intrude. From roughly 1830 to 1880 the Third Ward was the city's choicest residential neighborhood, set apart from the business district by the Erie Canal. Its homes reflect Rochester's mid-nineteenth-century economy: millers Hervey Ely and Benjamin Campbell built grand Greek Revival houses, and lumber merchants, a mayor and a telegraph pioneer also lived here. Leonard Jerome, grandfather of Winston Churchill, lived in the ward in the 1840s. After decay in the early twentieth century, urban renewal and a landmarks foundation that rehabilitated demonstration houses revived the area as a multi-income neighborhood.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Isaac Loomis (local architect who built his own house at 42 Atkinson Street); Ely House said to be designed by an architect named Hastings","architectural_style":"Greek Revival, Italianate villas, Gothic and Carpenter Gothic, and late Victorian","criteria":[],"status_note":"Since 1966 an Urban Renewal Project area; about two-thirds of buildings have been rehabilitated, and the plan bars retail, commercial and industrial uses. Condition is checked as excellent, good and fair.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:48.621975-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/74001262.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/100009601/63283f026c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/100009601/63283f026c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Adampaulsmith917","credit_html":"Adampaulsmith917, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atkinson_Street_in_the_Third_Ward,_Rochester,_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318956","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Ward_Historic_District_(Rochester,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7785001"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/monroe-county/third-ward-historic-district-boundary-increase-100009601/"}