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Sweet Briar (Geneseo, New York)

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Built
  
1898

NRHP Reference #
  
10000104

Architect
  
Austen, George

Added to NRHP
  
March 29, 2010

Sweet Briar (Geneseo, New York)

Nearest city
  
5126 Mount Morris Rd., near Geneseo, New York

Area
  
246.243 acres (99.651 ha)

Sweet Briar is a historic farm house located near Geneseo in Livingston County, New York. The main house was built about 1898 and is a 2 12-story, frame building with clapboard siding and a hipped roof with dormers. It is in a "U" shape and features a 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. The main house is operated as a bed and breakfast.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

References

Sweet Briar (Geneseo, New York) Wikipedia