{"nrhp_refnum":"05001393","name":"Ohio Street Methodist Episcopal Church Complex","other_names":["Third Avenue Methodist Church","St. Anne Maronite Catholic Church"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1921 Third Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Watervliet","county":"Albany County","state":"NY","lat":42.730511394000075,"lon":-73.70272481999996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-12-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A former Methodist Episcopal church and an associated parish house at 1921 Third Avenue in Watervliet, Albany County, New York. The brick church dates from about 1851 and was enlarged about 1895; the parish house was built about 1880-1881.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the church is a largely intact local example of Romanesque Revival ecclesiastical design. Its front addition was built onto an earlier Greek Revival meetinghouse. The complex also documents the growth of West Troy, later Watervliet, and the religious makeup of its residents.","narrative":"This church and parish house on Third Avenue in Watervliet, Albany County, began as the Ohio Street Methodist Episcopal Church. The congregation formed in 1849, after a split from the First Avenue Methodist Church. Its first building burned in 1850, and a brick meetinghouse with brownstone trim was consecrated debt free in 1851. Around 1895 a front addition with paired towers and round-arched windows was built onto it, giving the Greek Revival side walls a Romanesque Revival face. Inside, the upper-floor worship space keeps most of its historic finishes, including open trusses, stained glass and a 1914 J.W. Steere & Company pipe organ. A two-story Italianate brick parish house stands beside the church. Both buildings have suffered from a long vacancy, yet the complex remains largely intact. It is valued as a local example of Romanesque Revival church design and as a record of West Troy's growth and religious diversity.","period_of_significance":"c. 1850-1914","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century Greek Revival; Late Victorian Romanesque Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Long vacant and showing damage from water leakage and deferred maintenance, but being renovated for reuse by St. Ann Maronite Catholic Church of Troy.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:54.1013-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/05001393.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05001393/ebbdcd8698-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05001393/ebbdcd8698-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr from Upstate New York","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ohio_Street_Methodist_Episcopal_Church_Complex_Oct_09.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:Ohio_Street_Methodist_Episcopal_Church_Complex_Oct_09.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75316301","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_Street_Methodist_Episcopal_Church_Complex","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7080976"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/albany-county/ohio-street-methodist-episcopal-church-complex-05001393/"}