{"nrhp_refnum":"85002855","name":"Reynolds Arcade","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"16 E. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rochester","county":"Monroe County","state":"NY","lat":43.15600368200006,"lon":-77.61207406599993,"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":"An eleven-story Art Deco office building with arcaded ground-floor shops at 16 East Main Street in downtown Rochester, Monroe County, New York, built in 1932 and designed by Gordon and Kaelber.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is one of Rochester's finest Art Deco commercial buildings and one of only two major Art Deco skyscrapers in the Inner Loop area. It is also a rare urban arcade building in Rochester and continues a retail tradition on the site of Abelard Reynolds's 1828 arcade. It retains a high level of architectural integrity despite storefront changes.","narrative":"Rising eleven stories above East Main Street in downtown Rochester, this steel-frame office building was completed in 1932 to designs by the Rochester firm of Gordon and Kaelber. Its exterior is faced in Indiana limestone, with a stepped-back central tower, uninterrupted vertical piers and cast bronzed aluminum spandrels decorated with stylized Art Deco motifs. The recessed main entrance is framed by aluminum pilasters and an entablature with raised lettering, while corbels carrying smiling angel faces and an eagle in low relief add further ornament. The building was recognized as one of Rochester's finest Art Deco commercial designs and one of only two major Art Deco skyscrapers in the Inner Loop area, the other being the Times Square Building. It is also a rare local example of an arcade building, a type lined with shops along an interior passage. The name recalls the arcade Abelard Reynolds built on the site in 1828. Storefronts were altered around 1965, yet the building keeps its Art Deco character.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect: Gordon and Kaelber; builder unknown","architectural_style":"Art Deco","criteria":[],"status_note":"Used as an office building; condition listed as fair, with original storefronts altered around 1965 and a three-story wing added to the north in 1961.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:44.819636-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/85002855.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002855/f45bb66041-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002855/f45bb66041-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Santanacarballo","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reynolds_Arcade_front_view.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Santanacarballo</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:Reynolds_Arcade_front_view.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100010188","name":"Four Corners-Genesee Crossroads Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/four-corners-genesee-crossroads-historic-district-100010188/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313546","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_Arcade","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7319628"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/monroe-county/reynolds-arcade-85002855/"}