Jonathan Child House & Brewster–Burke House Historic District is a national historic district

Historic district (United States)

In the United States, a historic district is a group of buildings, properties, or sites that have been designated by one of several entities on different levels as historically or architecturally significant. Buildings, structures, objects and sites within a historic district are normally divided...

 containing a set of two historic homes located at Rochester

Rochester, New York

Rochester is a city in Monroe County, New York, south of Lake Ontario in the United States. Known as The World's Image Centre, it was also once known as The Flour City, and more recently as The Flower City...

 in Monroe County, New York

Monroe County, New York

Monroe County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 744,344. It is named after James Monroe, fifth President of the United States of America. Its county seat is the city of Rochester....

. The Jonathan Child House, located at 37 S. Washington St. was constructed 1837-1838 by Jonathan Child

Jonathan Child

Jonathan Child was the first Mayor of Rochester, New York and son-in-law of Colonel Nathaniel Rochester. Child was born in New Hampshire, and in 1805, at the age of 20, he moved to Utica, New York. In 1810, he moved to Charlotte, New York, and then during the War of 1812, he moved again to...

 (1785–1860), Rochester's first mayor and son-in-law of the city's founder Nathaniel Rochester

Nathaniel Rochester

Nathaniel Rochester was an American Revolutionary War soldier and land speculator, most noted for founding the settlement which would become Rochester, New York.-Early years:...

. It features a monumental two story portico and is a fine example of the Greek Revival

Greek Revival architecture

The Greek Revival was an architectural movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in Northern Europe and the United States. A product of Hellenism, it may be looked upon as the last phase in the development of Neoclassical architecture...

 style. The Brewster-Burke House, located at 130 Spring St., is a fine example of the Italianate

Italianate architecture

The Italianate style of architecture was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. In the Italianate style, the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian Renaissance architecture, which had served as inspiration for both Palladianism and...

 style. The house features a hipped roof with cupola

Cupola

In architecture, a cupola is a small, most-often dome-like, structure on top of a building. Often used to provide a lookout or to admit light and air, it usually crowns a larger roof or dome....

 and an entrance porch with carved Moorish Revival ornamentation.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

 in 1971.

External links

• Landmark Society of Western New York, Jonathan Child House tour
• Historical Marker Database, Jonathan Child House Marker
• Monroe County (NY) Library System - Rochester Images - Jonathan Child House
• The Brewster-Burke House, 130 Spring Street, history
• Jonathan Child House, 37 South Washington Street, Rochester, Monroe County, NY: 14 drawings, 4 photos and 3 data pages, at Historic American Building Survey
• Henry A. Brewster House, Spring & Washington Streets, Northwest, Rochester, Monroe County, NY: 10 drawings, 5 photos and 3 data pages, at Historic American Building Survey