White-Pound House
Why it's listed
Built in 1835 at 140 Pine Street in Lockport, this two-and-one-half-story house is made of Gasport limestone, with a rock-faced ashlar front and uncoursed rubble side walls. It was updated in the late 1850s with an entrance porch, a hip roof, wide eaves, scroll brackets and pendants in the Italianate manner. Around 1880 further changes added new entrance doors, Eastlake-style fireplace mantels and a frame second floor on the rear wing. Inside, the original room layout, plaster finishes and four-panel doors survive. A cellar kitchen with a cooking fireplace, crane and brick baking oven is a rare surviving example of its type. The house passed to Robert and Martha White in 1848 and stayed in the same family for 125 years. It is one of roughly seventy-five stone residences remaining in Lockport and is valued as a local landmark showing changing nineteenth-century taste.
Significance in brief: The house is significant under Criterion C as an important example of Lockport's mid-nineteenth-century domestic stone architecture. It shows how a 1835 house was updated in the Italianate and later Eastlake styles. It retains a rare, well-preserved cellar kitchen and a high level of integrity. It is one of about seventy-five surviving stone residences in the city.
Machine-generated summary. This summary was generated by a language model from the official nomination document and has not been reviewed line by line by an editor. It may contain errors. Check the source document before relying on any detail. Source: nomination document (PDF) · National Archives catalog entry. NRHP reference 03000484, listed May 30, 2003. Summary generated October 2026 (model claude-sonnet-5-5, prompt v1.0-2026-10-29, confidence high).
Key facts
| Address | 140 Pine St., Lockport |
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| County | Niagara County |
| Listed | May 30, 2003 |
| Reference number | 03000484 |
| Resource type | Building |
| Period of significance | 1835-1880 |
| Architect / builder | unknown |
| Architectural style | Italianate |
| Criteria |
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| Areas of significance | Architecture |
| Level of significance | Local |
| Status (as stated in the nomination) | Used as a single-family dwelling, as it was historically; the interior is described as retaining a high degree of integrity. |
| Acreage | 0.2 |
| Coordinates | 43.16633, -78.69178 (NPS GIS) |
What listing means for this property
National Register listing is honorary for a privately owned home: it does not by itself restrict what an owner may do with their own money, and it does not require public access. Restrictions come from local landmark or historic-district ordinances, which are separate (how they differ).
Owner-occupied houses are not eligible for the 20% federal rehabilitation tax credit, which applies to income-producing buildings, but many states offer credits for homeowners. Listing also opens the door to preservation easements and to buying a plaque. Start with what listing means for homeowners, renovating a listed house and selling one.
General information, not legal or tax advice. Rules change; confirm with your State Historic Preservation Office or a qualified adviser.
Sources and further reading
- National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places database (snapshot May 2026), reference 03000484.
- Nomination form (PDF, National Archives) — catalog entry
- Wikipedia article (used for cross-checking only; text not reproduced here)
- Wikidata Q7994265
- This listing as JSON
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