{"nrhp_refnum":"01000847","name":"Bay Shore Methodist Episcopal Church","other_names":["United Methodist Church of Bay Shore"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"E. Main St., jct. Second Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bay Shore","county":"Suffolk County","state":"NY","lat":40.723516319000055,"lon":-73.24537724799995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-08-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A church complex at East Main Street and Second Avenue in Bay Shore, Suffolk County, New York, made up of an 1893 Romanesque Revival church, the relocated 1867 Gothic Revival former church, and a 1959-60 brick Sunday School wing.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the 1893 church is a highly intact example of Romanesque Revival and Queen Anne styles adapted to Long Island's wooden church tradition. Its auditorium-style interior reflects the Methodist 'Akron Plan'. The attached 1867 Gothic Revival church shows how church design changed over the late nineteenth century. The succession of larger churches also reflects Bay Shore's growth into a fashionable seashore community.","narrative":"This Methodist church complex stands at the northwest corner of East Main Street and Second Avenue in Bay Shore, on Long Island's south shore. Its centerpiece is a large wood-framed church dedicated in 1893, with a steep cross-gabled roof, a tall square tower with a spire at the southwest, and a smaller round tower at the southeast. Round-arched windows and wheel windows give it Romanesque Revival and Queen Anne character. Inside, curved pews and radial aisles face the pulpit in the auditorium style known as the Akron Plan, favored by Methodists after the Civil War. Attached to the north is the earlier Gothic Revival church of 1867, moved back when the new building went up and now used as a fellowship hall. A brick Sunday School wing from about 1960 is not counted as historic. The church was listed for its architecture, and it also illustrates Bay Shore's growth from a farming and mill hamlet into a summer resort.","period_of_significance":"1867-1893","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Romanesque; Late Victorian: Queen Anne; Mid-19th Century: Gothic","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a religious facility; the form says the church retains a high degree of interior and exterior integrity, with cement-asbestos shingle siding the main alteration.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:50.413845-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/01000847.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000847/fe5f28a42a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000847/fe5f28a42a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr from Upstate New York","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bay_Shore_Methodist_Episcopal_Church_Mar_10.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Kerr from Upstate New York</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bay_Shore_Methodist_Episcopal_Church_Mar_10.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322031","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_Shore_Methodist_Episcopal_Church","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4874098"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/suffolk-county/bay-shore-methodist-episcopal-church-01000847/"}