{"nrhp_refnum":"74001254","name":"Homestead, The","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NY 39 and U.S. 20A","address_restricted":false,"city":"Geneseo","county":"Livingston County","state":"NY","lat":42.79031269550006,"lon":-77.81805581767694,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-08-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The Homestead is the Wadsworth family estate house at the south end of Main Street in Geneseo, Livingston County, New York. The wood frame core dates from about 1804 and was moved in 1874 and enlarged with late nineteenth century additions.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as the long-held family seat of the Wadsworths, one of a handful of major landed estates in the U.S. that has never changed hands. The Wadsworths shaped Geneseo's agricultural community and kept farming and leasing regional land rather than withdrawing their capital. The house also reflects a Gilded Age transformation, and the grounds were praised by A. J. Downing.","narrative":"Set at the south end of Geneseo's Main Street, The Homestead is the Wadsworth family estate, centered on a three-story white clapboard house with a mansard roof, many dormers and a long west porch overlooking the Genesee River valley. The core was built about 1804, around the time James Wadsworth married Naomi Wolcott. In 1874 the house was moved back from the road, then enlarged over the next twenty years with a third story, Georgian revival details and a porte-cochere. Outbuildings include a brick estate office, barns, a laundry and greenhouse. The estate grew from the land holdings James and William Wadsworth began developing in 1790 after arriving in the Genesee Valley. The nomination highlights the family's continuous ownership, its soil conservation and stock breeding practices, and landscape praise from A. J. Downing. It also stresses that the Wadsworths kept investing in local farmland while other landowners moved their money elsewhere.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late nineteenth century mansard-roofed house with Georgian revival touches","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in excellent condition; occupied as a private residence, with the estate office still in daily use and agricultural use continuing.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.493209-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/74001254.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001254/30420421dd-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001254/30420421dd-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HOMESTEAD,_GENESO,_LIVINGSTON_COUNTY.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:HOMESTEAD,_GENESO,_LIVINGSTON_COUNTY.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"77000948","name":"Main Street Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/main-street-historic-district-77000948/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318659","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Homestead_(Geneseo,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7740095"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/livingston-county/homestead-the-74001254/"}