{"nrhp_refnum":"84002734","name":"Nazareth House","other_names":["St. Andrew's Parish House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"94 Averill Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rochester","county":"Monroe County","state":"NY","lat":43.14427002100007,"lon":-77.60936052499994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-04-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Nazareth House (also called St. Andrew's Parish House) is a three-story red brick institutional building at 94 Averill Avenue in Rochester's South Wedge neighborhood. It was built in 1893 for St. Andrew's Episcopal Church and enlarged in 1911 with Douglas Hall.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is architecturally significant as a distinctive Neo-Italian Renaissance institutional building with high-quality masonry detailing. It is also historically significant as a center of educational and social service activity in the South Wedge, with programs that reached well beyond the church's membership.","narrative":"Nazareth House is a three-story red brick building at 94 Averill Avenue in Rochester's South Wedge neighborhood. Built in 1893 for St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, it has a square plan, bearing brick walls, a hip roof with wooden brackets, and raised brickwork at the corners that imitates quoins. In 1911 a lower rear addition, Douglas Hall, was built to designs by Walker & Nichols, along with a Neoclassical front porch. The addition held a kitchen, dining room, and gymnasium/auditorium. Under Reverend Algernon S. Crapsey, the church used the building for educational and social programs open to the whole community regardless of religion. These included a kindergarten teacher training school and a trade school that enrolled about 500 teachers and students in 1895. Later uses included a nursery school, a youth program, and the South-East Community Center, which reopened in 1976. The building was recognized for its Italian Renaissance-inspired design and its community role. It has since been converted into six apartments.","period_of_significance":"1893-1911 (specific dates 1893, 1911; checked period 1900-)","architect_builder":"Walker & Nichols, 1911 addition","architectural_style":"Neo-Renaissance (Neo-Italian Renaissance); 1911 porch in Neoclassical style","criteria":[],"status_note":"Now privately owned and rehabilitated, with interior spaces converted into six apartments; the form also marks it occupied and in private residence use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:42.021571-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/84002734.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002734/2102419b17-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002734/2102419b17-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jfaust42","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rochester-NY-94-Averill-Street.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-94-Averill-Street.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"13000307","name":"South Wedge Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/south-wedge-historic-district-13000307/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318890","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazareth_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6983320"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/monroe-county/nazareth-house-84002734/"}