{"nrhp_refnum":"01001381","name":"Second Baptist Society of Ulysses","other_names":["Trumansburg Conservatory for the Arts"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1 Congress St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Trumansburg","county":"Tompkins County","state":"NY","lat":42.54303865600008,"lon":-76.66213186399995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-12-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large frame Greek Revival meeting house at 1 Congress Street in Trumansburg, Tompkins County, New York, built 1849-1851 for the Second Baptist Society of Ulysses, with a 1902 rear addition.","why_significant":"It is presented as an outstanding example of a Greek Revival temple-front church in mid-nineteenth-century central New York, with a Doric exterior and Ionic interior following Asher Benjamin's design books. Builder Daniel Elmore's detailed construction records survive. It is also tied to the McLallen family, prominent in the village's development, who helped secure the site and funding.","narrative":"Completed in 1851 for the Second Baptist Society of Ulysses, this large frame meeting house overlooks the village of Trumansburg from a plateau north of Taughannock Creek. Its front is dominated by a porch with four massive fluted Doric columns, and the main hall inside is a single clear-span room with a rear gallery and Ionic columns. Builder Daniel Elmore worked from specifications that set out the dimensions of every piece of lumber, and his records survive. The design follows the Doric-outside, Ionic-inside approach recommended by architectural author Asher Benjamin. The McLallen family, leading figures in the village's growth, helped provide the site and funds. A rear addition by Eugene Holton of Interlaken followed in 1902, adding classrooms, a kitchen and a dining room, along with an interior renovation. The steeple blew off in the 1920s and the belfry was removed in 1951. Since 1982 the building has housed the Trumansburg Conservatory of the Arts.","period_of_significance":"1849-1902","architect_builder":"Daniel Elmore, church; Eugene Holton, addition","architectural_style":"Mid-nineteenth century/Greek Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Now used as the Trumansburg Conservatory of the Arts (theater, museum, school uses) after the Baptist Society sold it in 1982; steeple lost in the 1920s and belfry removed in 1951.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:50.252355-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/01001381.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01001381/eb54260c9d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01001381/eb54260c9d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SECOND_BAPTIST_SOCIETY_OF_ULYSSES,_TOMPKINS_COUNTY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</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:SECOND_BAPTIST_SOCIETY_OF_ULYSSES,_TOMPKINS_COUNTY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322520","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Baptist_Society_of_Ulysses","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7443063"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/tompkins-county/second-baptist-society-of-ulysses-01001381/"}