{"nrhp_refnum":"88002382","name":"Madison Square-West Main Street Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Anthony, Susan B., House"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Silver, Canal, W. Main and Madison Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rochester","county":"Monroe County","state":"NY","lat":43.15405526200004,"lon":-77.62647064578132,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-11-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-and-one-half block, roughly 22-acre mixed-use urban historic district on the west side of Rochester, Monroe County, New York, covering part of West Main Street and the surrounding residential, commercial and industrial streets of the early nineteenth-century Bush and King Tract.","why_significant":"The district is argued to be a distinctive, intact example of a nineteenth-century mixed-use neighborhood combining homes, shops and factories in a small, dense area. It contains the largest surviving late-nineteenth century carriage manufacturing complex in the city, built by the James Cunningham, Son and Company. It also includes Susan B. Anthony Square, a park with a 1904 landscape design from the Olmsted Brothers firm, and the Susan B. Anthony House.","narrative":"Madison Square/West Main Street Historic District covers about 22 acres just west of downtown Rochester, New York. It takes in a stretch of West Main Street and the blocks north of it, where homes, shops and factories were built side by side beginning in the 1830s. Most of the 101 contributing buildings are modest frame or brick houses in Greek Revival, Italianate and Queen Anne styles, arranged around Susan B. Anthony Square, a park whose curved walks and silver maples follow a 1904 design by the Olmsted Brothers. The Susan B. Anthony House on Madison Street is among the buildings. Along Canal and Litchfield Streets stands the former James Cunningham, Son and Company carriage works, described as the largest surviving late-nineteenth century carriage manufacturing complex in the city; one of its buildings was designed by Harvey Ellis. A row of commercial buildings on West Main Street completes the mix. The district was listed because it preserves this combined residential, commercial and industrial pattern.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Harvey Ellis (designer of the c. 1899 Cunningham industrial building at 7 Canal Street); Olmsted Brothers (1904 park landscaping)","architectural_style":"Greek Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, Second Empire, Romanesque, Colonial Revival and American Four Square, mostly vernacular","criteria":[],"status_note":"Contains 101 contributing buildings, two contributing sites and eight non-contributing buildings; the form notes some vacant lots near the park.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:44.743093-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88002382.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"97001454","name":"Maplewood Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/maplewood-historic-district-97001454/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318870","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Square%E2%80%93West_Main_Street_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6728086"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/monroe-county/madison-square-west-main-street-historic-district-88002382/"}