The district encompasses 840 contributing buildings (486 primary buildings) and 1 contributing site in a predominantly residential section of Rochester.

The dwellings reflect designs directed toward a middle-class clientele in a newly developing area of Rochester's Nineteenth Ward.

Located in the district is the Westminster Presbyterian Church (now the New Life Fellowship Church, 1915), West High School (now known as the Joseph C. Wilson Magnet High School, 1905) by Rochester architect J.

Foster Warner, Walter Spencer Public School #16 (c. 1911), and Aberdeen Square Park (c.

This article about a historic property or district in Monroe County, New York, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is a stub.