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| Nearest city | 5126 Mount Morris Rd., near Geneseo, New York |
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| Coordinates | 42°46′28.95″N77°49′41.29″W / 42.7747083°N 77.8281361°W Coordinates: 42°46′28.95″N77°49′41.29″W / 42.7747083°N 77.8281361°W |
| Area | 246.243 acres (99.651 ha) |
| Built | 1898 |
| Built by | Forbes, Edward |
| Architect | Austen, George |
| NRHP reference No. | 10000104 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | March 29, 2010 |
Sweet Briar is a historic farm house located near Geneseo in Livingston County, New York.
The main house was built about 1898 by George and Isabel Valle Austen on land that had been previously owned by Horatio Jones and the Wadsworth family. It was then the home of Winthrop and Margaret Ward Terry Chanler. It is a 2+1⁄2-story frame building with clapboard siding and a hipped roof with dormers. It is in a "U" shape and features a grand Tuscan colonnade. Also on the property are contributing gate posts, a stable, fountain, two tenant houses, and the Chapel of St. Felicitas. The chapel was built in 1913 and is a small stucco building with a slate roof and stained glass windows. [2] The structure was later moved to the neighboring home near Fall Brook. The main house (with ten acres) was sold in 2004 and operated as a bed and breakfast, wedding venue, spa and yoga studio until 2014. Currently Sweet Briar is a private residence.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. [1]
Geneseo is a village in and the county seat of Livingston County in the Finger Lakes region of New York, United States, south of Rochester. The name "Geneseo" is an anglicization of the Iroquois name for the earlier Iroquois town there, Gen-nis-he-yo, which means "beautiful valley".
Geneseo is a town in Livingston County in the Finger Lakes region of New York, United States. It is at the south end of the five-county Rochester Metropolitan Area. The population of the town was 10,483 at the 2010 census.
List of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Livingston County, New York
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Presbyterian Rest for Convalescents, also known as the Y.W.C.A. of White Plains and Central Westchester, is a historic convalescent home located at White Plains, Westchester County, New York. It was built in 1913, and is a 3+1⁄2-story, "H"-shaped building in the Tudor Revival style. The two lower stories are in brick and the upper stories in half-timbering and stucco. It has a tiled gable roof with dormer windows. The section connecting the two wings includes the main entrance, which features stone facing and Tudor arches. The connected Acheson Wallace Hall was built in 1972. The building housed a convalescent home until 1967, after which it was acquired by the Y.W.C.A. and operated as a residence for women.
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