{"nrhp_refnum":"100009931","name":"Mount Hope-Highland Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Portions of Mt. Hope, Highland, South, Reservoir, and Mt. Vernon Avenues; Castle Park, Bellevue Drive, Alpine Street, and Furman Crescent","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rochester","county":"Monroe County","state":"NY","lat":43.135833,"lon":-77.611111,"geom_source":"wikidata"},"listed_date":"2024-02-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Landscape Architecture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district of about 200-230 acres on the east side of the Genesee River in Rochester, New York, covering Mt. Hope Avenue, the older section of Mt. Hope Cemetery, Highland Park, Menlo Place and nearby streets. The original nomination dates from 1973-74; this record is a later boundary increase.","why_significant":"The area was the domain of the Ellwanger and Barry nursery and Mt. Hope Cemetery, and keeps a spacious, park-like character. It contains notable architect-designed buildings, mostly Gothic in spirit, by A.J. Davis, Gervase Wheeler, James Cutler, A.J. Warner and Claude Bragdon. The Victorian cemetery landscape is included for its role in the city's social history.","narrative":"Mt. Hope-Highland is a residential and parkland district of roughly 200 acres on the east bank of the Genesee River in Rochester. It takes in Mt. Hope Avenue, the older part of Mt. Hope Cemetery, Highland Park, Menlo Place, Castle Park and several small side streets. Much of the land once belonged to the Ellwanger and Barry nursery, which became one of the largest in the world. The two nurserymen shaped the area by commissioning leading architects, including A.J. Davis, who designed their stone nursery office in 1854-55. Nearby are Warner Castle, a Scottish-style castle of 1854, the Patrick Barry House of 1857, Gothic cottages for nursery employees, and shingle-style houses linked to Claude Bragdon. The cemetery adds a gatehouse, a chapel of 1863 and winding stone-paved roads. In 1887 the nursery owners gave twenty acres to the city as the start of Highland Park. The district was recognized for its architecture, landscape, planning and social history.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"A.J. Davis, A.J. Warner, J. Foster Warner, Gervase Wheeler, James Cutler (Culter), Claude Bragdon, Waasdorp, Northrup and Kaelber","architectural_style":"Gothic Revival, Shingle style and other 19th and early 20th century residential styles","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is given as excellent and altered, with occupied buildings in residential, park, government and other uses.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:48.458927-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/74001261.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/100009931/59ed1d3729-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/100009931/59ed1d3729-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Somebleu","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Sunken_Gardens_at_Warner_Castle_02.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Somebleu</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:The_Sunken_Gardens_at_Warner_Castle_02.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318886","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Hope%E2%80%93Highland_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6921282"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/monroe-county/mount-hope-highland-historic-district-boundary-increase-100009931/"}