{"nrhp_refnum":"96000675","name":"Burton, William H., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"35 E. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Waterloo","county":"Seneca County","state":"NY","lat":42.90451683100008,"lon":-76.86097321799997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-06-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A brick two-and-a-half story house at 35 East Main Street in the Village of Waterloo, Seneca County, New York, built about 1830 in the Federal style and remodeled about 1870 in the Italianate style.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a remarkably intact example of nineteenth-century Italianate domestic architecture in Waterloo, with a cupola, bracketed cornice, rare intact iron porch grillwork and original interior finishes. It is also tied to William H. Burton, a prominent local attorney, village official and newspaper publisher who owned it from 1853 to 1890. Since 1965 it has housed a museum on the origins of Memorial Day in Waterloo.","narrative":"Located at 35 East Main Street in Waterloo, New York, this brick house began about 1830 as a step-gabled Federal style dwelling built by village trustee Moses Severance, who owned a flax seed oil mill and published a newspaper. Attorney and publisher William H. Burton bought it in 1853 and, by about 1870, remodeled it in the Italianate style. He removed the gables, added a hipped roof with cupola and bracketed cornice, and built two rear wings. A porch with rare, intact iron grillwork spans the front. Inside, marble fireplaces, round-arched doorways with compound trim, plaster ceiling medallions and a curved stairway from 1871 survive. Burton served as village attorney, district attorney and trustee president, and published the Waterloo Observer. The building is valued as a representative Italianate house in the village. Since 1965 it has been home to a museum devoted to the birth of Memorial Day in Waterloo in 1866.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1870","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian; Italianate","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Currently used as a museum, owned by the Waterloo Library and Historical Society since 1965; the interior floor plan and many original finishes survive.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:51.02727-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/96000675.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000675/d518ad8665-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000675/d518ad8665-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Kenneth C. Zirkel","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_H._Burton_House_Waterloo_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Kenneth C. Zirkel</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:William_H._Burton_House_Waterloo_NY.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100000895","name":"Waterloo Downtown Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/waterloo-downtown-historic-district-100000895/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75321817","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Burton_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8010350"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/seneca-county/burton-william-h-house-96000675/"}