{"nrhp_refnum":"01000585","name":"Childwold Memorial Presbyterian Church","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Bancroft Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Piercefield","county":"St. Lawrence County","state":"NY","lat":44.284658997000065,"lon":-74.66873991399996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-05-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Social History","Entertainment/Recreation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small one-story Queen Anne style wooden church on Bancroft Road in Childwold, Piercefield, St. Lawrence County, in the Adirondack Park, built in 1893 with a non-contributing summer manse on the same parcel.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the church has an outstanding level of architectural integrity in the Queen Anne style and is the sole survivor of the community's vanished Victorian architecture. It also represents the community development and tourism boom that followed railroad access to the Adirondacks, and it served as a gathering place for worship and social life.","narrative":"Set on a square parcel along Bancroft Road in the Adirondack hamlet of Childwold, this small wooden church was built in 1893 on land donated by community founder Addison Child and the Dorr family. Architect and builder William A. Pond directed a volunteer workforce using lumber milled locally. The building is a one-story basilica-plan Queen Anne design, about 25 by 42 feet, with a full-width verandah, a bellcast steeple, jerkinhead wall dormers, and decorative cedar shingle bands. Inside are original cast-iron and maple pews, colored-glass windows added in 1913, and a painted altarpiece donated in 1925. The church mattered to a community shaped by a grand resort hotel, railroad access and later logging. When the Hotel Childwold was demolished, the church remained as the sole survivor of that era. It served year-round residents and seasonal visitors for decades and still holds summer services, retaining a high level of historic integrity.","period_of_significance":"1903-1950","architect_builder":"William A. Pond","architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Queen Anne","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Operates as a seasonal church open through the summer months, with student ministers filling the pulpit; a ten-year window restoration concluded in 1999.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:50.998447-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/01000585.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75321868","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childwold_Memorial_Presbyterian_Church","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5098634"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/st-lawrence-county/childwold-memorial-presbyterian-church-01000585/"}