{"nrhp_refnum":"89001138","name":"Warner, Matthew, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"7449 E. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lima","county":"Livingston County","state":"NY","lat":42.90838735300008,"lon":-77.60391031799998,"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, five-bay brick house at 7449 East Main Street in the village of Lima, Livingston County, New York, built about 1806 and attributed to Matthew Warner, with later remodelings in the 1860s/70s and 1920s.","why_significant":"The house is significant under Criterion C as a representative example of nineteenth-century domestic architecture in Lima. Its early Federal-period form survives beneath Gothic/Italianate and Colonial Revival changes that turned a rural farmhouse into a village-oriented dwelling. It is also one of few early brick buildings in Lima, made with bricks from the Warner Brick Yard.","narrative":"Built about 1806 on the north side of East Main Street, the original State Road, this brick house began as a rural farmhouse for Matthew Warner, an early Lima landowner, town official and state assemblyman. Its bricks came from a nearby brickyard on Spring Creek. The main block is a two-story, five-bay, center-hall building with a one-story side wing. Later owners updated it twice. In the 1860s and 1870s a front cross gable, decorative porches, Italianate entry doors and marble mantels were added. In the 1920s Colonial Revival interior detailing and a glass-enclosed sun porch followed. During the 1930s the house served as a roadside restaurant called The Elms. These changes reflect the neighborhood's shift from farmland to village. The house is recognized for its architecture, which shows a common early nineteenth-century house type under layers of later fashion, and for its use of locally made brick.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1806; 1860s/70s; 1920s (extending to ca. 1930)","architect_builder":"Architect: unknown; Builder: attributed to Matthew Warner","architectural_style":"Federal origin with Gothic/Italianate and Queen Anne-inspired features and Colonial Revival interior detailing","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Private residence in good condition; no threats known. A former carriage barn, a modern guest house and a relocated lamp post are non-contributing.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.100804-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/89001138.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001138/8042bfa3bc-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001138/8042bfa3bc-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Matthew_Warner_House,_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:Matthew_Warner_House,_Livingston_County.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313399","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Warner_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6791384"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/livingston-county/warner-matthew-house-89001138/"}