{"nrhp_refnum":"71000543","name":"Child, Jonathan, House & Brewster-Burke House Historic District","other_names":["Brewster-Burke House Historic District"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"37 S. Washington St. and 130 Spring St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rochester","county":"Monroe County","state":"NY","lat":43.153018329000076,"lon":-77.61662022399997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1971-02-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-building historic district in the Third Ward of downtown Rochester, New York, at 37 South Washington Street and 130 Spring Street. It holds the Jonathan Child House (built 1837-38) and the Brewster-Burke House, a mid-19th-century Italianate villa.","why_significant":"The two houses are important examples of their periods, and set side by side they show how architectural taste changed in the mid-nineteenth century. The Child House was built by Rochester's first mayor and is notable for its monumental two-story portico and detailing. The Brewster-Burke House is an important example of the Italianate villa and has become a city landmark. Both stood in what was once Rochester's most fashionable residential area.","narrative":"Two mid-nineteenth-century houses make up this small historic district in Rochester's Third Ward, once the city's most fashionable residential neighborhood. The Jonathan Child House at 37 South Washington Street was built in 1837-38 by Rochester's first mayor, a son-in-law of the city's founder, Nathaniel Rochester. It is a Greek Revival building with stuccoed stone walls, a gabled roof, carved wooden cornice and frieze, and a two-story portico with Corinthian columns. Its design has been attributed to S.P. Hastings, while architect Daniel Loomis has also been suggested. South of it, at 130 Spring Street, stands the Brewster-Burke House, an Italianate villa of local brick with Lockport limestone trim, a hipped roof, a low cupola, deep bracketed eaves, and an entrance porch carved in a Moorish style. Henry A. Brewster bought the land in 1849, and hardware merchant William Burke lived there from 1867. Together the houses illustrate changing architectural tastes.","period_of_significance":"19th Century; specific date given as 1837-38","architect_builder":"Child House: built by Jonathan Child; design attributed to S.P. Hastings, with Daniel Loomis also suggested. Brewster-Burke House: attributed to Henry Searle or E.S. Barger.","architectural_style":"Greek Revival (Jonathan Child House); Italianate villa (Brewster-Burke House)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is marked good. The Child House is owned by a preservation society and leased to a research organization; the Brewster-Burke House is owned by an institute of technology. The open space between the houses is used for parking.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:38.636002-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/71000543.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000543/e8fbe2dac7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000543/e8fbe2dac7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Matthew D. Wilson (LtPowers)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rochester_-_Jonathan_Child_House_-_front_view.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Matthew D. Wilson (LtPowers)</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:Rochester_-_Jonathan_Child_House_-_front_view.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318776","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Child_House_%26_Brewster%E2%80%93Burke_House_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6272754"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/monroe-county/child-jonathan-house-and-brewster-burke-house-historic-district-71000543/"}