{"nrhp_refnum":"85002848","name":"Jewish Young Men's and Women's Association","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"400 Andrews St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rochester","county":"Monroe County","state":"NY","lat":43.16050379400008,"lon":-77.60427094599999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-10-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A complex of three connected buildings (administration building, auditorium/theater and handball court building) at 400 Andrews Street in Rochester, Monroe County, New York, designed in 1931 and built 1931-35 as a Jewish community center.","why_significant":"It is a representative example of Georgian Revival ornament and detailing adapted to a large multi-story institutional building. It is also noted for its well-preserved eclectic interiors and period rooms, designed by prominent local architect Siegmund Firestone. It served the Rochester Jewish community's cultural life for over seventy years.","narrative":"Three connected buildings at 400 Andrews Street in downtown Rochester make up the former Jewish Young Men's and Women's Association complex, built 1931-35 to a design by Siegmund Firestone. A seven-story, V-shaped administration building in Georgian Revival style holds offices, health facilities, a dining hall, lounges, a library and dormitory rooms. A two-story theater and a five-story handball court building complete the group. All are steel frame and reinforced concrete with brick veneer, and the main block has a limestone base and tapestry brick walls. The interiors include period rooms in Georgian, Elizabethan and other styles, and the library has plaster male figures under its ceiling arches. The organization traced back to a Judean Club of 1895 and a Jewish Young Men's Association formed in 1907. It used this site until the early 1970s. The building was valued as an example of academic Georgian Revival design and as a cultural landmark. It was later converted to commercial uses.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect: Siegmund Firestone; Builder: A. Friedrich and Sons Company","architectural_style":"Georgian Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition rated good; no longer serves its original purpose and was being converted to offices, theater and health club after a 1982 purchase. Present use listed as office building.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.271311-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/85002848.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002848/c64f32e813-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002848/c64f32e813-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Tim Pierce","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jewish_Young_Men%27s_and_Women%27s_Association.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Tim Pierce</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:Jewish_Young_Men%27s_and_Women%27s_Association.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313556","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Young_Men%27s_and_Women%27s_Association","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6189997"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/monroe-county/jewish-young-mens-and-womens-association-85002848/"}