{"nrhp_refnum":"89001129","name":"Stanley House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"7364 E. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lima","county":"Livingston County","state":"NY","lat":42.90557422300003,"lon":-77.60881389299993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-08-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Greek Revival frame house at 7364 East Main Street in the village of Lima, Livingston County, New York, built about 1857 and attributed to Clinton Backus and Daniel Stanley, with a carriage barn and privy.","why_significant":"The house is argued to be a distinctive, relatively sophisticated example of Greek Revival domestic architecture in Lima, with Italianate influence in its cubic, hip-roofed form. It helped establish East Main Street as an exclusive residential enclave and reflects mid-century village-oriented housing for prosperous middle-class owners. Its highly intact interior and surviving carriage barn and privy add to its significance.","narrative":"Built about 1857 on East Main Street in the village of Lima, this two-story frame house has a three-bay, hip-roofed main block, a one-story west wing, and rear wings. Clapboard siding, a limestone-faced foundation, a wide frieze with cast-iron attic grilles, fluted Doric porch columns and a deeply recessed, bead-and-reel doorway mark it as Greek Revival, while its cubic massing shows Italianate influence. The interior keeps original surrounds, doors, grained woodwork and an open stair. A mid-nineteenth-century carriage barn and privy also survive. Clinton Backus began the house in 1857 and sold it to Daniel Stanley within a year. Later occupants included the Grover and Gale families. It was listed as an example of the high-style, village-oriented homes built for prosperous merchants, professionals and gentleman farmers when Lima grew rapidly around the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary. It stood across from the similar J. Franklin Peck House and helped establish the neighborhood as an exclusive enclave.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1857","architect_builder":"Architect unknown; builder attributed to Clinton Backus and Daniel Stanley","architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Condition rated good; in use as a private residence, with original site and high interior integrity.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:44.806986-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/89001129.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001129/0c30490f79-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001129/0c30490f79-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Lvklock","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stanley_House.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Lvklock</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:Stanley_House.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313365","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_House_(Lima,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7599687"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/livingston-county/stanley-house-89001129/"}