{"nrhp_refnum":"04000704","name":"Otter Lake Community Church","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NY 28","address_restricted":false,"city":"Otter Lake","county":"Oneida County","state":"NY","lat":43.59174192900008,"lon":-75.11249198699994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-07-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Carpenter Gothic wood-frame church in the lakeside hamlet of Otter Lake, Oneida County, New York, built in 1861 at Hawkinsville and moved to its present site on NY 28 in 1921. A 1924 bungalow serves as a seasonal parsonage on the same lot.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the church is a highly intact, representative example of mid-nineteenth century wood frame church architecture in rural Oneida County. It reflects the Gothic Revival ideas promoted by architect Richard Upjohn and is described as a rare example of its type in the Adirondack region. It also remains a prominent local landmark tied to Otter Lake's history as a summer community.","narrative":"Otter Lake Community Church is a Carpenter Gothic church on NY 28 in the lakeside hamlet of Otter Lake, Oneida County. It was built in 1861 at Hawkinsville for a German Lutheran congregation, abandoned there after 1891, and moved to Otter Lake in 1921. The rectangular frame building has board-and-batten siding, a steeply pitched standing-seam metal roof, decorative buttresses, lancet-arched windows and a four-stage square tower with a louvered belfry. Inside, exposed medieval-inspired trusses, original pews and altar, and a choir loft on turned columns survive. A small 1924 bungalow on the lot serves as a seasonal parsonage. The church was recognized for its architecture as a well-preserved example of mid-nineteenth century wooden church design influenced by Richard Upjohn's rural Gothic parish churches, and as a rare example of its type in the Adirondack region. Now non-denominational, it holds services for the summer population and remains a local landmark.","period_of_significance":"1861 - 1924","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mid 19th Century: Gothic Revival (Carpenter Gothic); early 20th Century: Bungalow","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still in use as a non-denominational church serving the summer population, with weekly services from late spring to early fall; the bungalow serves as a seasonal parsonage.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:54.099137-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/04000704.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000704/7a423befb3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000704/7a423befb3-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Otter_Lake_Community_Church_Jan_12.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, 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:Otter_Lake_Community_Church_Jan_12.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320243","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otter_Lake_Community_Church","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7109399"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/oneida-county/otter-lake-community-church-04000704/"}