{"nrhp_refnum":"97001388","name":"LeRoy House and Union Free School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"23 E. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Leroy","county":"Genesee County","state":"NY","lat":42.97846266500005,"lon":-77.98617501199999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1997-11-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-one-half story Greek Revival house (LeRoy House) and a three-story masonry school building (Union Free School, ca. 1898) on a 3.1 acre lot at 23 East Main Street in the Village of LeRoy, Genesee County, New York.","why_significant":"The LeRoy House began as a land office and became the residence of Jacob LeRoy, a prominent early citizen involved in land sales, milling and civic life. It later housed Ingham University's first chancellor and served the LeRoy Academic Institute and the local public school system. The adjacent Union Free School, built ca. 1898, is an intact example of its type with a documented link to the house.","narrative":"At 23 East Main Street in the Village of LeRoy, a Greek Revival house and a later school building stand together on a 3.1 acre lot. The house is a stuccoed masonry residence of two and a half stories, with a columned front portico, a center-hall plan and elliptical interior arches. It began as a land office, which Jacob LeRoy bought in 1823 and enlarged into a spacious home. LeRoy entertained guests there, including Daniel Webster, and built a grist mill on Oatka Creek. Later the house was the residence of Dr. Samuel Hanson Cox, first chancellor of Ingham University, and then served as a boarding house for the LeRoy Academic Institute, which opened in 1865. In 1891 the Union Free School District bought the property, and about 1898 it built the three-story masonry school behind the house. The house now operates as a museum run by the local historical society, while the school remains a contributing resource.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century/Greek Revival (LeRoy House); Late Victorian (Union Free School)","criteria":[],"status_note":"The LeRoy House is used as a museum and offices by the LeRoy Historical Society, with exhibits, a research library and collections storage.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:50.5514-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/97001388.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97001388/a022c58e34-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97001388/a022c58e34-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Le_Roy_House,_Le_Roy,_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</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:Le_Roy_House,_Le_Roy,_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75317903","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Roy_House_and_Union_Free_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6507618"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/genesee-county/leroy-house-and-union-free-school-97001388/"}