{"nrhp_refnum":"05001136","name":"Seventh Day Baptist Church","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Utica St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"DeRuyter","county":"Madison County","state":"NY","lat":42.761291020000044,"lon":-75.88494677399996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-10-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame Federal-style meeting house on Utica Street (NY Route 13) in the village of DeRuyter, Madison County, New York, built about 1835 by a Seventh Day Baptist congregation.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the church is an outstanding example of an early-nineteenth-century frame church with Late Federal characteristics. Its two-story meeting house form and central multi-stage steeple follow designs popularized by Christopher Wren and James Gibbs and spread through pattern books. It also closely resembles Baptist churches in Rensselaer County, where the congregation's founders originated.","narrative":"Built around 1835 for a Seventh Day Baptist congregation, this two-story frame meeting house sits on Utica Street in DeRuyter, Madison County, New York. It has clapboard siding, a gabled roof, a small projecting front pavilion with two decorated entrances, and a multi-stage steeple rising from the front. Inside are a curving gallery on wood columns and a semi-circular altar niche. The congregation came to DeRuyter in 1806 from Berlin and Petersburg in Rensselaer County, and the church resembles Baptist churches built there in the 1820s. Its steeple design reflects ideas from Christopher Wren and James Gibbs that reached American builders through pattern books. The congregation, which peaked at 658 members in 1875, shrank over the twentieth century, and the church closed in 2000. Its stained glass windows were removed to a church in Mississippi. The building is now held by a local historical society, which plans to restore it for cultural use.","period_of_significance":"c.1835","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early Republic: Federal","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The congregation closed the church in 2000. It is now owned by the Tromptown Historical Society, which hopes to restore it and use it for meetings and cultural purposes; current function is listed as museum.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.836213-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/05001136.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05001136/a8e35055e8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05001136/a8e35055e8-1600.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:Seventh_Day_Baptist_Church_DeRuyter_NY_Nov_09.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:Seventh_Day_Baptist_Church_DeRuyter_NY_Nov_09.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318740","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh_Day_Baptist_Church_(DeRuyter,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7457708"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/madison-county/seventh-day-baptist-church-05001136/"}