National Register of Historic Places
G.W. Todd-Wilmot Castle Company Building
Rochester, Monroe County, New York
The record
- Listed
- February 2, 2018
- Type
- Building
- Address
- 1255 University Ave., Rochester
- County
- Monroe
- State
- New York
- Contributing resources
- 1 building
- Coordinates
- 43.15056, -77.56913
- Reference number
- 100002054
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The story
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The G.W. Todd-Wilmot Castle Company Building is a factory building at 1255 University Ave. in Rochester, Monroe County, built in 1909 in the Early to mid 20th century Commercial style.
Why it's listed
It was listed under criteria A and C, with local significance in architecture and industry. Its period of significance runs from 1909, when the building was built, to 1955, when its tenant moved production to Henrietta and vacated the building.
Physical character
The building is a two-and-one-half-story brick and concrete courtyard factory, with a sawtooth roof of skylighted monitors and a copper and glass canopy over the entrance beneath a pressed-metal cornice. Additions followed in stages, including a seven-bay extension of the east facade in 1944 and a concrete-block wing built in 1940 that gained a second floor in 1950. Gordon and Kaelber designed the 1929 additions, and Carl R. Traver designed the 1940 wing.
Historical context
Libanus M. Todd invented the Protectograph, a check-signing device, in 1899, and the G.W. Todd Company built the building in 1909. In 1918 the company moved across University Avenue and sold the property to the Wilmot Castle Company, which became the largest U.S. maker of sterilizing equipment by 1929 and occupied it until 1955.