{"nrhp_refnum":"94001597","name":"Lomb, Adolph, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Jct. of Southerland St. and W. Jefferson Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pittsford","county":"Monroe County","state":"NY","lat":43.08889788300007,"lon":-77.52372190499995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-01-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two and one-half story brick-faced reinforced concrete house at Sutherland Street and West Jefferson Road in Pittsford, Monroe County, New York, built in 1907 as the focal point of a Lomb family farm and summer estate. The architect is unknown.","why_significant":"The house is significant under Criterion C in architecture as a rare surviving early twentieth-century estate house in Pittsford, with an eclectic revival design. Its reinforced concrete construction beneath a brick veneer is unusual for a house of its size and may have been chosen for fireproofing. It also retains a very high degree of integrity despite the loss of its estate setting.","narrative":"Built in 1907 on the edge of Pittsford, this large house was the centerpiece of a roughly 70-acre farm and summer estate assembled by brothers Adolph and Henry Charles Lomb of the Bausch and Lomb optical firm. Adolph Lomb later used it as a summer retreat and died there in 1932. Although faced in blond Flemish-bond brick, the building is actually poured reinforced concrete, with concrete walls, floors and a curving staircase with spiraling newels. Its exterior blends features of several revival styles. Concrete was then promoted mainly for small, affordable houses, so a luxury estate home of this scale is unusual, and fireproofing may have motivated the choice, possibly to protect the brothers' large optical book collection. No architect has been identified. The convent school, then the school district, acquired the property in the 1930s and 1940s. The school complex now surrounds the house, and the other estate buildings are gone, but the house keeps its original plan and character and was listed as a rare local example of estate architecture.","period_of_significance":"1907","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th century revivals","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Used as the headquarters of the Pittsford Central School District; interior refitted for office use but original floor plan survives. The carriage house is altered and excluded.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:50.91748-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/94001597.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94001597/912ddae9ac-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94001597/912ddae9ac-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Tim Pierce","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adolph_Lomb_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Tim Pierce</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:Adolph_Lomb_House.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"16000163","name":"Pittsford Village Historic District (Boundary Increase)","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/pittsford-village-historic-district-boundary-increase-16000163/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318866","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph_Lomb_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4684373"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/monroe-county/lomb-adolph-house-94001597/"}