{"nrhp_refnum":"89001134","name":"Godfrey House and Barn Complex","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1325 Rochester Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lima","county":"Livingston County","state":"NY","lat":42.92829758800008,"lon":-77.61136674499994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-08-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 4.7-acre farm complex at 1325 Rochester Road, Lima vicinity, Livingston County, New York. It has an Italianate farmhouse built about 1853, two barns, a garage, a milk house, a chicken house and a silo, with components dating from the 1850s to the 1930s.","why_significant":"The complex is argued to be an unusually intact collection of nineteenth and early twentieth century farm architecture in Lima. The farmhouse is a distinctive local example of Italianate design, with high integrity inside and out. The outbuildings and rural setting also illustrate broad patterns of agricultural development in the town.","narrative":"This farm complex on Rochester Road, just north of the village of Lima, centers on an Italianate farmhouse built around 1853 for Lauren B. Godfrey, a prosperous farmer who also ran a lime kiln. The two-story, cubic house has a low hipped roof, wide eaves with paired brackets, a verandah with cast-iron railings, and richly detailed plaster work inside. Behind it stand two barns, a concrete block garage, a milk house, a chicken house and a terra cotta silo, dating from the 1850s to the 1930s. The farm once covered 195 acres, but only 4.7 acres remain with the buildings. The complex was listed for its architecture and for its role in the farming history of Lima. The house shows how wealthy farmers built fashionable dwellings once the village grew, and the surviving outbuildings keep their original spatial arrangement, showing how a working farm evolved over time.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1850s - ca. 1930s","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Condition is rated good; the property is in private residential use and no threats are known.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.724731-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/89001134.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001134/9485ace9a4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001134/9485ace9a4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GODFREY_HOUSE_AND_BARN_COMPLEX,_LIVINGSTON_COUNTY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GODFREY_HOUSE_AND_BARN_COMPLEX,_LIVINGSTON_COUNTY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313413","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfrey_House_and_Barn_Complex","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5576457"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/livingston-county/godfrey-house-and-barn-complex-89001134/"}