{"nrhp_refnum":"76001227","name":"Genesee Wesleyan Seminary and Genesee College Hall","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"College St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lima","county":"Livingston County","state":"NY","lat":42.908959681000056,"lon":-77.61434671699999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-07-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Two brick neoclassical buildings on the campus of a Bible institute on College Street in Lima, Livingston County, New York: the former seminary Administration Building (c. 1842) and the former Genesee College Hall (c. 1851).","why_significant":"The buildings made Lima a leading seat of learning in western New York in the nineteenth century, first as a Methodist seminary and then as a college that later became Syracuse University. They are also seen as a noteworthy vernacular interpretation of neoclassical architecture before the Civil War, and they remain essentially unaltered and in educational use.","narrative":"Two brick neoclassical buildings on a rolling campus at the edge of Lima, New York, once housed the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary and Genesee College. The seminary's Administration Building, a four-and-one-half-story U-shaped structure with a domed lantern and two-tier veranda, was rebuilt about 1842 after a fire by William Anderson and C.B. Coleman. The same builders completed College Hall about 1851, a two-and-one-half-story temple-form building with an Ionic portico. The Methodist Episcopal Church's Genesee Conference founded the seminary, which graduated more students than any other institution in western New York at the time. Genesee College moved to Syracuse in 1869 and became Syracuse University. Belva Lockwood and Harvey Jarvis Raymond were among those linked to the school. The campus later served the National Youth Administration and a Methodist junior college, and since 1949 it has belonged to a Bible institute. Its adjoining farm preserves the setting of this early educational complex.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"William Anderson and C.B. Coleman","architectural_style":"Neoclassical","criteria":[],"status_note":"Both buildings remain essentially unaltered and continue to serve as educational facilities; the form lists the property as occupied, in fair condition.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:38.491954-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/76001227.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001227/fd41ab89b8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001227/fd41ab89b8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr from now in Binghamton, NY","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Genesee_College_Hall_Aug_09.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Kerr from now in Binghamton, NY</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Genesee_College_Hall_Aug_09.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318649","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesee_Wesleyan_Seminary_and_Genesee_College_Hall","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5532754"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/livingston-county/genesee-wesleyan-seminary-and-genesee-college-hall-76001227/"}