{"nrhp_refnum":"05000682","name":"St. Paul's Lutheran Church","other_names":["St. Paul's Episcopal Church"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"464 Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Oak Hill","county":"Greene County","state":"NY","lat":42.408161292000045,"lon":-74.15113267899994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-07-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Exploration/Settlement"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A timber-frame meetinghouse-type church at 464 Main Street in the hamlet of Oak Hill, Town of Durham, Greene County, New York. It was built in 1834 as St. Paul's Episcopal Church and is now a Lutheran church. The property also includes a cemetery and a cast-iron fence.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the church is an outstanding local example of early Gothic Revival ecclesiastical architecture applied to a traditional meetinghouse form. It is also significant for its link to the early growth of Oak Hill, a rural hamlet that was an industrial center for the town. The 1883 chancel addition reflects the growing influence of the Ecclesiological movement on Episcopal church design.","narrative":"Built in 1834 as St. Paul's Episcopal Church, this timber-frame meetinghouse stands on Main Street in the hamlet of Oak Hill, in the Town of Durham, Greene County. It is three bays wide and four deep, with a gable front, tall pointed-arch windows holding original twenty-over-twenty sash, and a cornice with Federal-style proportions. A chancel with small transepts was added to the rear in 1883, and a Fellowship Hall was added to the east side around 1973. The grounds include a cemetery whose earliest stones date to the second quarter of the nineteenth century, and a cast-iron fence made at a local Oak Hill foundry. The church is significant as an early local example of Gothic Revival design applied to a traditional meetinghouse form, by an unidentified builder. The 1883 chancel reflects later Ecclesiological influence on Episcopal architecture. The church also represents the religious life of a hamlet that grew around mills and foundries.","period_of_significance":"1834-1883","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century: Early Gothic Revival; Late Victorian: Gothic Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a religious facility with an associated cemetery. A Fellowship Hall was added c. 1973 and the original bell tower was removed c. 1970 because of rot.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.203051-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/05000682.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000682/37bab2b25d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000682/37bab2b25d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr from Upstate New York","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Paul%27s_Lutheran_Church_Oak_Hill_NY_Jul_10.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Kerr from Upstate New York</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._Paul%27s_Lutheran_Church_Oak_Hill_NY_Jul_10.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100001586","name":"Oak Hill Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/oak-hill-historic-district-100001586/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318051","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Paul%27s_Lutheran_Church_(Oak_Hill,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7591162"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/greene-county/st-pauls-lutheran-church-05000682/"}