{"nrhp_refnum":"85002856","name":"Washington Street Rowhouses","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"30--32 N. Washington St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rochester","county":"Monroe County","state":"NY","lat":43.15587719600006,"lon":-77.61760325899996,"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 pair of two-story, three-bay brick rowhouses at 30-32 North Washington Street in Rochester, Monroe County, New York, built about 1840 in the Greek Revival style. Architect and builder are unknown.","why_significant":"The rowhouses are the only surviving examples of the rowhouses built in Rochester during the second quarter of the nineteenth century. They show a common northeastern city housing type that was unusual in Rochester. They also illustrate the first generation of development in the northwestern part of downtown, and one was home to a women's rights activist.","narrative":"Two brick rowhouses at 30-32 North Washington Street in Rochester date to about 1840 and are the only surviving examples of the rowhouses built in the city during the second quarter of the nineteenth century. Each is two stories and three bays wide, with a pitched roof, interior end chimney, wooden cornice and side-by-side entrances beside a shared party wall. The raised foundation is coursed stone, and a later Italianate bracketed hood covers the Greek Revival door pilasters. Inside, the original stairways, doors, moldings and floor plan remain. Row housing of this kind was common in northeastern cities between 1810 and 1850 but rarely appeared in Rochester. The houses stand on land once part of Colonel Rochester's tract, in an area later taken over by industry, highways and urban renewal. Through most of the nineteenth century they housed the families of L.C. Smith and John E. Thompson. Mrs. Smith worked with Susan B. Anthony and helped found the Women's Equality Club in 1886. The buildings are now used as SRO housing.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival, with a later Italianate door hood","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is listed as deteriorated; present use is SRO housing, originally single-family residences.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.416568-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/85002856.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002856/abd4472fcd-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002856/abd4472fcd-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"DanielPenfield","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WashingtonStreetRowhouseRochesterNewYork.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:WashingtonStreetRowhouseRochesterNewYork.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313577","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Street_Rowhouses","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7972324"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/monroe-county/washington-street-rowhouses-85002856/"}