{"nrhp_refnum":"00000747","name":"Trinity Episcopal Church and Parish House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"227 Sherman St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Watertown","county":"Jefferson County","state":"NY","lat":43.973501687000066,"lon":-75.91501614899994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-06-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History","Politics/Government","Education"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Richardsonian Romanesque-inspired stone church (1889-90) and its attached Collegiate Gothic parish house, Trinity House (1912-13), at 227 Sherman Street in Watertown, Jefferson County, New York.","why_significant":"The nomination marks criteria A, B and C, with areas of significance including social history, politics and government, and education. It ties the church to Roswell P. Flower, a Watertown figure who became a congressman and Governor of New York and a Wall Street financier, and whose family gave gifts to the church. The buildings are also presented as a notable pairing of two late Victorian architectural styles.","narrative":"Trinity Episcopal Church and its attached parish house stand at 227 Sherman Street in Watertown, New York. The church, built in 1889-90, is a large Richardsonian Romanesque-inspired building of grey random-coursed ashlar with red-brick trim, a broached steeple tower, a conical turret and a 12-lobed rose window. Inside, it seats 800 and has a barrel-vaulted ceiling with hammerbeam trusses, marble chancel furnishings and stained glass installed in 1928. The nine-bell belfry was made by the Meneely Bell Company. Trinity House, added in 1912-13, is a three-story Collegiate Gothic building in matching stone, trimmed in cast stone. It contains a Great Hall, classrooms, apartments, a gymnasium and a swimming pool, and it had the first elevator in a non-public building in Watertown. The property is linked to Roswell P. Flower, a Watertown resident who became a congressman and Governor of New York. The form cites social history, politics and government, and education, along with architectural merit. Both buildings remain in active use.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Richardsonian Romanesque-inspired (church); Collegiate Gothic (parish house)","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Both buildings remain in religious use as a church and parish house. The parish house is used by church and community groups, and a 1997 fund drive financed restoration and renovation work there.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:50.281705-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/00000747.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000747/07827c8ceb-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000747/07827c8ceb-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Stephen Schweitzer","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trinity_Episcopal_Church_and_Parish_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Stephen Schweitzer</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trinity_Episcopal_Church_and_Parish_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313309","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_Episcopal_Church_and_Parish_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7842790"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/jefferson-county/trinity-episcopal-church-and-parish-house-00000747/"}