{"nrhp_refnum":"74001262","name":"Third Ward Historic District","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":43.150471428500055,"lon":-77.61525054252884,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-07-12","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 in the inner southwest quadrant of Rochester, Monroe County, New York, with roughly 126 structures and ten vacant lots, mostly brick houses built from the 1820s-1830s onward.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is a graphic visual record of Victorian Rochester and of the city's social history. From about 1830 to 1880 it was Rochester's choicest residential area, home to millers, lumber merchants, a mayor and other notable figures. Its houses range from Greek Revival temples to Italianate and Gothic villas and early twentieth century apartments.","narrative":"Tucked into the inner southwest corner of Rochester and cut off from downtown by Interstate 490, this seven-block residential neighborhood holds about 126 structures, mostly brick houses. Styles run from heavy Greek Revival temple-fronted homes to Italianate villas with cupolas, Gothic houses with towers and cresting, and early twentieth century apartment buildings. Between about 1830 and 1880 it was the city's choicest residential district, set apart from the business area by the Erie Canal. Its residents included millers Hervey Ely and Benjamin Campbell, lumber merchants Amon Bronson and Emmet Hollister, mayor Charles J. Hayden, and for a time the young Leonard Jerome, grandfather of Winston Churchill. Local architect Isaac Loomis built a Carpenter Gothic cottage for himself at 42 Atkinson Street. After decay in the early twentieth century, urban renewal and demonstration rehabilitation by the Genesee Landmarks Foundation revived the area, and about two-thirds of its buildings have since been rehabilitated.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Isaac Loomis (local architect who built 42 Atkinson Street for himself); an architect named Hastings is said to have designed the Hervey Ely House","architectural_style":"Greek Revival, Italianate villas, Gothic and Carpenter Gothic, late Victorian, with early twentieth century apartment buildings","criteria":[],"status_note":"Largely in use as a residential neighborhood; about two-thirds of buildings have been rehabilitated under an urban renewal project begun in 1966, with ten vacant lots and a few mid-twentieth century buildings.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:38.904379-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/74001262.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001262/63283f026c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001262/63283f026c-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-74001262/"}