{"nrhp_refnum":"01001566","name":"Immanuel Baptist Church","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"815 Park Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rochester","county":"Monroe County","state":"NY","lat":43.14677863900005,"lon":-77.57417417999994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-02-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Immanuel Baptist Church is a ca. 1925 Tudor Revival and Late Gothic Revival church complex at 815 Park Avenue, Rochester, Monroe County, New York. It pairs a front-gable auditorium with an attached Sunday school wing.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the church is an intact, highly distinguished example of an early twentieth-century ecclesiastical building in Rochester. It was designed by the Rochester firm of J. Foster Warner, who combined Late Gothic Revival and Tudor Revival elements to express the relationship between sanctuary and school. The building retains a high level of integrity despite some interior alterations.","narrative":"Immanuel Baptist Church stands at the corner of Park Avenue and Brunswick Street in Rochester, New York. Built around 1925 and dedicated that year, it combines a one-and-one-half-story auditorium with a T-plan, two-and-one-half-story school wing. Walls of clay tile and brick are clad in stucco with half-timbered gables, and steep slate roofs cover the building. A square corner tower, buttresses, lancet windows and a parapet-gable entrance recall English parish churches. Inside, the auditorium has a basilica plan, dark stained wood trusses, a rear gallery and a full-immersion baptistry. German-made stained glass windows, the Healing Window of 1944 and the Learning Window of 1959, are notable features. Rochester architect J. Foster Warner designed the complex, using smaller Tudor elements to blend the large structure into its residential surroundings. It was listed for its architecture because it remains highly intact in design, materials and craftsmanship, despite alterations made in 1957 and later.","period_of_significance":"1925-26","architect_builder":"J. Foster Warner","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals/Tudor Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a religious facility; the exterior is largely unaltered, with changes in 1957 and about 1990, and the school's second floor has recently housed a nursery school.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.615191-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/01001566.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01001566/e309b43c68-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01001566/e309b43c68-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IMMANUEL_BAPTIST_CHURCH,_ROCHESTER,_MONROE_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:IMMANUEL_BAPTIST_CHURCH,_ROCHESTER,_MONROE_COUNTY.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100004981","name":"Park Avenue Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/park-avenue-historic-district-100004981/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318854","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Baptist_Church_(Rochester,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6004571"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/monroe-county/immanuel-baptist-church-01001566/"}