{"nrhp_refnum":"01000250","name":"Christian Church","other_names":["Fitches Bridge Church"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NY 10","address_restricted":false,"city":"East Delhi","county":"Delaware County","state":"NY","lat":42.299076694000064,"lon":-74.87867912599995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-03-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small wood-frame church on the south side of NY 10 in the hamlet of East Delhi, Delaware County, New York, built in 1860 (dedicated September 1860) with a privy and a nineteenth-century cemetery.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the church is significant for its unusual blend of Greek Revival form and assertive Gothic Revival decoration, notably twelve engaged towers with pinnacles. It is also tied to the early settlement of East Delhi and to land set aside by Gideon Frisbee in 1822 for a Christian Church congregation and burial ground.","narrative":"Set on a slight rise beside NY 10 in East Delhi, this small wood-frame church was dedicated in September 1860 and is attributed to James Adams, a carpenter from nearby Hamden. Its core is a typical mid-nineteenth-century meeting house with a rectangular plan, gable roof, clapboard siding and classical entrance, but twelve narrow engaged towers with pinnacles give it a bold Gothic Revival appearance. Whether the towers were original or added later remains unresolved. The land was leased in 1822 by Judge Gideon Frisbee to the Christian Church congregation for a house of worship and burial ground. The congregation used the building until 1925, and services resumed in 1940. Christian Scientists occupied it from 1950 and made reversible alterations. A cemetery with markers from 1820 to 1975 and a double privy are part of the property. It was listed for its architecture and its link to local social history, and is currently vacant.","period_of_significance":"1861","architect_builder":"James Adams, builder","architectural_style":"Greek Revival/Gothic Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Current function is listed as vacant; the property was returned in 1990 to the Delaware County Historical Association by the Christian Scientists who used it from 1950. The privy is intact but deteriorated.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:50.071031-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/01000250.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000250/16cea07a0e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000250/16cea07a0e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Vonsky87","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christian_Church,_East_Delhi,_NY.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Vonsky87</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christian_Church,_East_Delhi,_NY.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75317191","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Church_(East_Delhi,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5109427"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/delaware-county/christian-church-01000250/"}