{"nrhp_refnum":"92000153","name":"Our Lady of Victory Roman Catholic Church","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"210 Pleasant St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rochester","county":"Monroe County","state":"NY","lat":43.159047978000046,"lon":-77.60888294799997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-03-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Our Lady of Victory Roman Catholic Church, known as the \"Little French Church,\" is a small brick church with an attached brick rectory at 210 Pleasant Street in Rochester, Monroe County, New York, built in 1868.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the church is an intact representative example of an urban, ethnic parish church from the post-Civil War period in Rochester. Its late Renaissance/Baroque-inspired design has no precedent among the city's mostly Gothic Revival and Romanesque Revival churches. It retains integrity inside and out and is one of a small group of surviving nineteenth-century churches in downtown Rochester. The rectory contributes to its significance.","narrative":"Built in 1868 at 210 Pleasant Street in Rochester, Our Lady of Victory Church, called the \"Little French Church,\" served the city's small French-speaking community, which drew on French, French Canadian, Belgian and Swiss families. The small brick building has a symmetrical facade with two slender corner towers, a broken segmental pediment and concave parapets, a late Renaissance and Baroque-inspired look unlike the Gothic and Romanesque churches of the period. Inside, a tripartite vaulted ceiling and a domed-light apse frame the altar. The design was traditionally credited to the Belgian-born pastor, Father Hippolyte DeRegge, but a watercolor rendering and an 1868 newspaper notice point to architect A. J. Warner, perhaps in collaboration with the pastor. A brick rectory, raised to three stories at an unknown date, is attached. Later additions, mostly from a 1961 renovation, are largely out of view. The church is listed for its architecture and for its intact exterior and interior, and it still hosts an active congregation.","period_of_significance":"c1868","architect_builder":"Andrew J. Warner, Architect","architectural_style":"Mid-nineteenth century; Early Romanesque Revival; Baroque Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The parish continues to serve an active congregation; the church and rectory remain in religious use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:44.961901-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/92000153.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92000153/6f88ec7010-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92000153/6f88ec7010-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jfaust42","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rochester-NY-Our-Lady-of-Victory-Church.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Jfaust42</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:Rochester-NY-Our-Lady-of-Victory-Church.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313561","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Victory_Roman_Catholic_Church","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7110993"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/monroe-county/our-lady-of-victory-roman-catholic-church-92000153/"}