{"nrhp_refnum":"96001169","name":"Hildreth-Lord-Hawley Farm","other_names":["Pittsford Farms"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"44 N. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pittsford","county":"Monroe County","state":"NY","lat":43.094029192500045,"lon":-77.51256961105678,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-10-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Politics/Government","Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A six-acre suburban farm estate at 44 North Main Street in the Village of Pittsford, Monroe County, New York. It centers on an Italianate house built in 1814 by Samuel Hildreth and remodeled in the 1860s, with landscaped grounds and nineteenth-century outbuildings.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farm is an early example of a suburban farm estate, tied to the trend of suburbanization, and notable for its Jersey cattle, Shetland pony stock and sanitary dairy methods. It is also associated with merchant Samuel Hildreth, politician Jarvis Lord and entrepreneur Frank W. Hawley. It embodies Romantic period landscape and architectural design, and the house is cited as Pittsford's most outstanding Italianate example.","narrative":"Set on a small knoll on North Main Street in the Village of Pittsford, this six-acre property combines an Italianate house, Romantic-style grounds and a group of nineteenth-century farm buildings. Samuel Hildreth built the house in 1814, and Jarvis Lord remodeled it in the 1860s, adding the wrap-around veranda, paired brackets and half-round gable windows, and laying out the park-like lawns, stone retaining wall and cast iron fence. Outbuildings include a dairy, creamery and ice house, tenant house, smokehouse, blacksmith shop and wagon shed, along with cast iron statuary and a fountain. Later owners, including Frank W. Hawley, developed the farm's Jersey cattle and Shetland pony stock and its dairy business. The property is described as the earliest farm estate in Pittsford and the one that best retains its agricultural setting. It illustrates how city businessmen created country estates near Rochester before large-scale suburban growth reached the village. The dairy still operates today.","period_of_significance":"1814 - 1946","architect_builder":"Hildreth, Samuel","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Italianate","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"The property is still in use as a single dwelling and working farm, and the dairy continues to operate. The adjacent farmland remains in active agricultural use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:50.547878-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/96001169.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96001169/1048803784-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96001169/1048803784-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Tim Pierce","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hildreth-Lord-Hawley_Farm.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:Hildreth-Lord-Hawley_Farm.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/75318838","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildreth-Lord-Hawley_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14706369"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/monroe-county/hildreth-lord-hawley-farm-96001169/"}