{"nrhp_refnum":"83001709","name":"Rochester City School #24","other_names":["School #24","Elwanger and Barry School"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Meigs St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rochester","county":"Monroe County","state":"NY","lat":43.13626599600008,"lon":-77.60102798499997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-09-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story Spanish Colonial Revival public school building at Meigs, Linden and Crawford Streets in southeast Rochester, New York, built in 1913 to designs by Edwin S. Gordon for the City of Rochester.","why_significant":"The school is argued to be architecturally important in American school design and a symbol of Rochester's school improvements after 1900. Its one-story plan gave every classroom its own exit, a response to a 1912 school fire, and it became the prototype of many 'safety first' one-story schools in Rochester and elsewhere.","narrative":"Built in 1913 at Meigs, Linden and Crawford Streets in Rochester, School #24 is a one-story Spanish Colonial Revival building with brick pilasters, cream stucco panels and a red Spanish tile hipped roof. Its plan resembles a Roman house, with classrooms ringing a central auditorium/gymnasium lit by skylights. Architect Edwin S. Gordon designed it for the city's schools, placing every classroom on one floor with its own exit to the outside, a reaction to a disastrous 1912 fire at old School #3. The design became known as a 'safety first' school and served as a forerunner of many one-story schools in Rochester and across the country. The land was donated by the nursery firm Ellwanger and Barry, for whom the school is named. It replaced an 1877 six-room school across the street. The building has since been converted to condominiums, with the original layout, skylights and auditorium largely preserved. It is valued as a rare early example of improved grammar school design and as a pivotal neighborhood landmark.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"City of Rochester, Edwin S. Gordon, Arch.","architectural_style":"Spanish Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Recently converted to condominiums using the tax incentives for certified rehabilitation; the interior configuration remains essentially as built and the building is in excellent condition.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:43.071905-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/83001709.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001709/ead70973f9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001709/ead70973f9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jfaust42","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rochester-NY-Ellwanger-Barry-School-24.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Jfaust42</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-NY-Ellwanger-Barry-School-24.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"74001261","name":"Mount. Hope-Highland Historic District (Additional Documentation)","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/mount-hope-highland-historic-district-additional-documentation-74001261/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318918","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester_City_School_No._24","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7353960"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/monroe-county/rochester-city-school-24-83001709/"}