Fleming, Bryant, House
Why it's listed
Set on an 11.2-acre lot above a 100-foot cliff just outside the village of Wyoming, this property was the home and showpiece of landscape architect Bryant Fleming. It includes a one-and-one-half story clapboard cottage with an L-shaped plan, a larger two-story brick and clapboard playhouse built for entertaining and overnight guests, and a series of gardens, stone walks, brick walls and a long gravel drive. Fleming enlarged a modest nineteenth-century worker's cottage and filled both buildings with salvaged leaded windows, Federal mantels and other reused parts in an eclectic antiquarian manner. Fleming, born in Buffalo in 1877, studied at Cornell, led its landscape architecture program and designed country estates and state parks. He worked for Lydia Coonley-Ward at nearby Hillside and later on the Cheekwood estate in Nashville. His own house shows his design preferences and is considered a well-preserved small country estate of about 1910 to 1940.
Significance in brief: The complex is argued to be a highly intact example of a modest rural estate of the first third of the twentieth century. Fleming reworked an existing worker's cottage and built a playhouse using salvaged nineteenth-century elements in an eclectic antiquarian style. It is also tied to Fleming, an early practitioner and founder of academically based landscape architecture in America.
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 09000838, listed October 14, 2009. Summary generated October 2026 (model claude-sonnet-5-5, prompt v1.0-2026-10-29, confidence medium).
Key facts
| Address | 1024 Tower Rd., Wyoming |
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| County | Wyoming County |
| Listed | October 14, 2009 |
| Reference number | 09000838 |
| Resource type | Building |
| Period of significance | ca. 1910 - ca. 1940 |
| Architect / builder | Bryant Fleming |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival; Arts & Crafts |
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| Areas of significance | Architecture, Landscape Architecture |
| Level of significance | Local |
| Status (as stated in the nomination) | Still used as a single dwelling; the form lists the current function as domestic/single dwelling. |
| Acreage | 11.2 |
| Coordinates | 42.83364, -78.09203 (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.
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Sources and further reading
- National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places database (snapshot May 2026), reference 09000838.
- Nomination form (PDF, National Archives) — catalog entry
- Wikipedia article (used for cross-checking only; text not reproduced here)
- Wikidata Q4980568
- This listing as JSON
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