{"nrhp_refnum":"99000193","name":"Lord and Burnham Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2 Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Irvington","county":"Westchester County","state":"NY","lat":41.03966315000008,"lon":-73.87264058499994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-02-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A four-story brick office and factory building with a connected rear factory wing and a Queen Anne style stable, built c. 1881 at 2 Main Street in the village of Irvington, Westchester County, New York, across from the railroad station.","why_significant":"It was the long-time main office and factory of Lord and Burnham Horticultural Manufacturing Company, a leading greenhouse manufacturer. It is also an intact example of late Victorian industrial architecture and typifies riverfront factory development along the Hudson River. The company used it from its construction until closing in 1988.","narrative":"Built around 1881 at 2 Main Street in Irvington, New York, this brick building served as the office and factory of the Lord and Burnham greenhouse company. It replaced a former shoe factory that burned in the summer of 1881, the year the firm moved in. The main block has four stories, segmental-arched windows, mansard roofs with dormers, and a corner tower with a pyramidal roof. A three-story factory wing extends behind it, and a Queen Anne style stable with half-timbering and an oriel window stands to the east. The company used the complex until 1988 and was the village's first and largest industry. Lord and Burnham led American greenhouse manufacturing for about fifty years and introduced the first iron-frame greenhouse in the country at the Lyndhurst conservatory. The building is significant for that industrial history and as a surviving example of Victorian waterfront factory architecture on the Hudson River. Its interior was altered in the mid-twentieth century, but the exterior remains largely intact.","period_of_significance":"c. 1881 - c. 1930","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Queen Anne","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The company closed in 1988. A planned rehabilitation would convert the building to a library and residential units. The exterior retains a high level of integrity, while the interior was altered in the mid-20th century.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:51.094312-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/99000193.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000193/4650f30860-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000193/4650f30860-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lord_and_Burnham_Building.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</a>, <a href=\"http://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:Lord_and_Burnham_Building.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75323091","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_%26_Burnham_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12061370"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/westchester-county/lord-and-burnham-building-99000193/"}