{"nrhp_refnum":"04000875","name":"Hartford Baptist Church and Cemetery","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"56 NY 23 (Main St.)","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hartford","county":"Washington County","state":"NY","lat":43.36480839300003,"lon":-73.39254545899996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-08-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A brick Late Gothic Revival Baptist church and its adjoining cemetery on Main Street (CR 23) in the village of North Hartford, Town of Hartford, Washington County, New York. The present church opened in January 1891 and was designed by Benjamin D. Price of Philadelphia.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the church is an architecturally significant, mainstream example of Late Gothic Revival rather than a vernacular building, with its original fabric and interior largely intact. It is also historically significant as the focus of major social issues in Hartford, including the Anti-Masonic split of 1830, anti-slavery resolutions, and Civil War recruitment.","narrative":"Hartford Baptist Church and Cemetery occupy a site on Main Street in North Hartford, Washington County, New York. The brick church opened in January 1891 on the footprint of an earlier building lost to fire. Philadelphia architect Benjamin D. Price designed it in the Late Gothic Revival style, with a bluestone-trimmed foundation, a slate roof and two towers, the taller carrying a spire and a 908-pound bell. Inside, the pews face north in the manner of a New England meetinghouse, with a full-immersion baptistry behind the pulpit and woodwork influenced by the Eastlake style. Changes have been modest and reversible. The congregation dates to the eighteenth century and was at the center of local controversies, including a split over Freemasonry in 1830, an 1850 resolution refusing a pulpit to slaveholding ministers, and a rally in 1861 that raised Civil War volunteers. Its architecture and its role in community life led to its listing.","period_of_significance":"1891-1954","architect_builder":"Benjamin D. Price, Architect; main contractor A. M. Wilson of Poultney, VT","architectural_style":"Late Gothic Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Church and cemetery remain in religious and funerary use; the building is in good repair with good integrity, apart from the lost horse sheds.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:52.879077-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/04000875.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000875/02e7774e35-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000875/02e7774e35-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr from now in Binghamton, NY; color-corrected and cropped by Daniel Case 2009-10-30","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hartford_Baptist_Church_and_Cemetery.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Kerr from now in Binghamton, NY; color-corrected and cropped by Daniel Case 2009-10-30</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:Hartford_Baptist_Church_and_Cemetery.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322835","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartford_Baptist_Church","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1373303"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/washington-county/hartford-baptist-church-and-cemetery-04000875/"}