Jonathan Child House

Location

35 South Washington Street, Rochester NY 14614

Phone

585 232 2260

Paulio's is located in the historic Jonathan Child House. The Greek mansion was was constructed in 1837 for Jonathan Child, Rochester's first mayor. The historic marker out front reads

Jonathan Child


First Mayor of Rochester 1834 — 1905 built the house in 1938 and lived here with his wife, Sophia Eliza Rochester Child, until 1840.

According to the library

Jonathan Child sold the mansion in the 1840's and various residents through the years occupied it. In 1885 it became "The Pillars", a fashionable boarding house. In 1920 the Washington Club occupied it. The Fourth Church of Christ Scientist acquired the building in 1933 and it was purchased by the Landmark Society in 1957. They leased it to the Bureau of Municipal Research in 1961 and later became the Rochester Health Commission. Edwards Restaurant, previously in the Academy Building at 13 South Fitzhugh Street, relocated here in early 2002.