{"nrhp_refnum":"03001354","name":"Petersburgh United Methodist Church","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"12 Head of Lane Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Petersburgh","county":"Rensselaer County","state":"NY","lat":42.75237502300007,"lon":-73.34502237399994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-01-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small rural Methodist church at 12 Head of Lane Road in Petersburgh, Rensselaer County, New York. It was built in 1820, remodeled in the Queen Anne style in 1892, and given an annex in 1938.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the church is a good, intact example of Queen Anne ecclesiastical architecture in Rensselaer County. It shows typical features such as an asymmetrical composition, a corner tower with a pyramidal roof and multi-paned sash. It is also one of the few intact older public buildings left in a hamlet whose crossroads were destroyed by twentieth-century road changes.","narrative":"This small Methodist church at 12 Head of Lane Road in Petersburgh, Rensselaer County, began as a plain New England-style meeting house built in 1820 for $1,600, most of it raised by parishioners. In 1892 the congregation remodeled it in the Queen Anne style, adding a 45-foot bell tower with a pyramidal roof and wrought-iron cresting, a steeper roof, and decorative trim. A one-story annex with a parish hall and kitchen followed in 1938, and asbestos shingles covered the clapboards in 1941. Inside, the balcony and its turned posts appear to survive from 1820, and the hand-hewn frame is visible in the basement and tower. The church is listed for its architecture as an intact, modest example of rural Queen Anne design. Road changes in the twentieth century removed the hamlet's central crossroads, leaving the church as one of the few intact older public buildings in Petersburgh. The adjacent former parsonage was excluded for lack of integrity.","period_of_significance":"1820 - 1938","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Queen Anne","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a religious facility, with a congregation described as much smaller than the sanctuary's capacity of about 250.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.605936-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/03001354.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03001354/b292bcd04c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03001354/b292bcd04c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr from Albany, New York, United States","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Petersburgh_United_Methodist_Church_Jun_10.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Kerr from Albany, New York, United States</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:Petersburgh_United_Methodist_Church_Jun_10.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75321276","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petersburgh_United_Methodist_Church","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7178196"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/rensselaer-county/petersburgh-united-methodist-church-03001354/"}