{"nrhp_refnum":"06000887","name":"Stillwater United Church","other_names":["Second Baptist Church"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"135 Hudson Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Stillwater","county":"Saratoga County","state":"NY","lat":42.93897301900006,"lon":-73.65380384699995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-09-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A brick and stone church building at 135 Hudson Avenue (US Route 4) in the village of Stillwater, Saratoga County, New York. Completed in 1873 as the Second Baptist Church and designed by architect Marcus F. Cummings.","why_significant":"The church is significant under architecture as a large, distinguished example of Italianate-inspired (early Romanesque Revival or Northern Italianate) church design in Stillwater. It is also described as an early and rare surviving religious building by Marcus F. Cummings of Troy. It retains a high level of interior and exterior integrity.","narrative":"This red brick church on Hudson Avenue (US Route 4) in the village of Stillwater was completed in 1873 as the Second Baptist Church. It replaced an earlier Greek Revival frame meetinghouse built in 1836 on the same parcel. Troy architect Marcus F. Cummings designed it in an early Romanesque Revival or Northern Italianate style, with round-arched openings, brick pilasters, corbelled cornices, stone trim, a staged bell tower and a 14-foot rose window. Inside, the sanctuary sits above a raised-basement social hall and has decorative molded beams with Eastlake-inspired trim and opalescent stained glass. The building is considered an early and rare surviving example of Cummings's religious work. In 1947 the Baptist, Presbyterian and Methodist congregations combined, and in 1952 they incorporated as Stillwater United Church. A 1952 brick education wing is attached but is not considered historically significant. The congregation still worships in the building.","period_of_significance":"1873-1952","architect_builder":"Marcus F. Cummings (Architect)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Italianate","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The congregation continues to worship in the building; the 1952 education wing is non-contributing, and a non-historic steeple was installed in 2005.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.636105-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/06000887.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000887/11189ee613-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000887/11189ee613-1600.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:Stillwater_United_Church_Feb_09.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:Stillwater_United_Church_Feb_09.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/75321633","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stillwater_United_Church","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14707372"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/saratoga-county/stillwater-united-church-06000887/"}