{"nrhp_refnum":"96000435","name":"Saint Bernard's Seminary","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2260 Lake Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rochester","county":"Monroe County","state":"NY","lat":43.21044358550006,"lon":-77.62877342950996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-04-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Saint Bernard's Seminary is a complex of four connected Victorian Gothic buildings of red-brown Medina sandstone at 2260 Lake Avenue, Rochester, New York, built between 1891 and 1908 on an eighteen-acre wooded site above the Genesee River.","why_significant":"The complex is a self-contained campus of distinguished architectural merit, designed by Rochester architect Andrew Jackson Warner and his successor firm under Willis J. Brockett. The exterior of the four main buildings and the view from Lake Avenue retain substantial integrity. The form recommends local significance. The excerpt does not include the Section 8 statement of significance.","narrative":"Saint Bernard's Seminary is a campus of four connected buildings on Lake Avenue in Rochester, built between 1891 and 1908. All are faced in red-brown Medina sandstone with brick trim in a Victorian Gothic style. The Center Building and Chapel (1891-93) were designed by Rochester architect Andrew Jackson Warner. The South Building, or Philosophy Hall (1900), and the North Building, or Theology Hall (1908), came from his successor firm under Willis J. Brockett. Interior passageways link the buildings. The Center Building has a tower over a porte-cochere, and the third-floor chapel has exposed hammer-beam trusses. The campus occupies about eighteen wooded acres between Lake Avenue and the Genesee River bank. Seminary use continued through 1981. Afterward, interiors of two buildings were largely gutted, and two outbuildings were added. Two original buildings at the rear were demolished. The exterior and the view from Lake Avenue remain largely intact, and the complex keeps its character as a self-contained campus.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Andrew Jackson Warner (Center Building and Chapel); Willis J. Brockett, successor firm (South and North Buildings)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Gothic","criteria":[],"status_note":"Seminary use ended in 1981. The Chapel has been vacant since then, while parts of the Center and South Buildings have had limited office use since 1983. Substantial interior demolition and alteration occurred in the 1980s.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:49.967779-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/96000435.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000435/380abd857d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000435/380abd857d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"DanielPenfield","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Bernard%27s_Seminary_front_entrance.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">DanielPenfield</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:St._Bernard%27s_Seminary_front_entrance.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318928","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Bernard%27s_Seminary","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7401051"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/monroe-county/saint-bernards-seminary-96000435/"}