{"nrhp_refnum":"05000264","name":"St. Stephen's Episcopal Church","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1 Grove St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Schuylerville","county":"Saratoga County","state":"NY","lat":43.09683461700007,"lon":-73.58337127399994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-04-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Gothic Revival stone Episcopal parish church at 1 Grove Street in the village of Schuylerville, Saratoga County, New York, erected in 1868 from a design credited to the Rev. R. F. Crary of Poughkeepsie.","why_significant":"The church is argued to be a distinguished and highly intact example of early English style Gothic Revival church architecture in Saratoga County, reflecting Ecclesiological movement ideals. It retains complete interior and exterior integrity, including a polychrome slate roof, an 1869 tracker organ and a significant collection of mid-nineteenth century memorial stained glass windows.","narrative":"St. Stephen's Episcopal Church sits on a triangular, one-acre lot atop a steep slope on Grove Street in Schuylerville. Built in 1868 and consecrated in 1870, it follows a cruciform plan with walls of quarry-faced stone, buttressed corners, an engaged square bell tower and a steep roof covered in polychrome slate. The design is credited to the Rev. R. F. Crary of Poughkeepsie and draws on the rural English Gothic parish church model promoted by the Ecclesiological movement. Inside, open varnished wood trusses, wood pews and plastered stone walls survive, along with an 1869 tracker organ and bell. Memorial stained glass windows installed between about 1872 and 1892 honor early parish families, including Dr. Charles H. Payn, who led the building effort, and Lt. Col. Charles R. Mudge. The church is recognized for architecture because of its high level of integrity and the quality of its design and glass. It remains an active parish today.","period_of_significance":"1868-1892","architect_builder":"Design attributed to Rev. R. F. Crary of Poughkeepsie (the architect has not otherwise been identified)","architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century/Gothic Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Remains an active parish with a small congregation; a non-contributing altered house on the parcel serves as a parish building with an apartment.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.488633-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/05000264.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000264/d04bad4eb5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000264/d04bad4eb5-1600.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:St._Stephen%27s_Episcopal_Church_Schuylerville_NY_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:St._Stephen%27s_Episcopal_Church_Schuylerville_NY_Jun_10.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"76001274","name":"Champlain Canal","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/champlain-canal-76001274/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75321631","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Stephen%27s_Episcopal_Church_(Schuylerville,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7591768"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/saratoga-county/st-stephens-episcopal-church-05000264/"}