{"nrhp_refnum":"83001707","name":"East High School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"410 Alexander St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rochester","county":"Monroe County","state":"NY","lat":43.15970919800003,"lon":-77.59169130499998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-06-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story brick high school at 410 Alexander Street in Rochester, Monroe County, New York, built in 1902 to designs by J. Foster Warner. It has a U-shaped plan with twin Italianate campanile.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is an excellent example of the Italian Renaissance style applied to a large institutional building. It launched the Board of Education's new building program and was among the first Rochester schools to house many educational facilities under one roof. It is also a rare intact example of Warner's school designs, and his original blueprints survive.","narrative":"East High School is a three-story brick school at 410 Alexander Street in Rochester, completed in 1902 from designs by local architect J. Foster Warner. Its U-shaped plan opens toward the street, with classroom wings flanking a central assembly and administrative block and twin Italianate campanile rising above the roofline. Stone belt courses, quoins, keystones and medallions detail the exterior, while the interior includes skylit cast-iron stair halls and a decorative two-story assembly hall. The school opened in April 1903 as the first of a citywide building program prompted by rapidly growing high school enrollment. It was designed for 1,200 students and combined classrooms, laboratories, a library, gymnasiums, a museum and a gallery in one building. Unlike Warner's other school buildings, it has seen only minor alterations, and his original blueprints survive. These qualities make it a rare intact example of his Renaissance-style work. At the time of listing the building stood empty and was being converted into apartments.","period_of_significance":"1902","architect_builder":"J. Foster Warner","architectural_style":"Italian Renaissance","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as unoccupied and empty at the time of nomination; being converted into eighty-five housing units using rehabilitation tax incentives. Condition rated fair.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:43.573711-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/83001707.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001707/62f6fb846f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001707/62f6fb846f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"DanielPenfield","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OldEastHighSchoolRochesterNewYork.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">DanielPenfield</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:OldEastHighSchoolRochesterNewYork.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"79001589","name":"East Avenue Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/east-avenue-historic-district-79001589/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318798","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_High_School_(Rochester,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5328596"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/monroe-county/east-high-school-83001707/"}