{"nrhp_refnum":"07001015","name":"Wanakena Presbyterian Church","other_names":["Mount Lebanon Presbyterian Church"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"32 Second St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wanakena","county":"St. Lawrence County","state":"NY","lat":44.13595530100008,"lon":-74.92125139099994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-09-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Entertainment/Recreation","Social History","Exploration/Settlement"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small wood-frame Presbyterian church at 32 Second Street in the hamlet of Wanakena, Town of Fine, St. Lawrence County, New York, built in 1903 to a steepled-ell design by Benjamin D. Price and built by the Rich Lumber Company.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as a highly intact example of modest early-20th-century church architecture drawn from a Price catalog design, with only two other known examples in the Adirondack State Park. It is also tied to the lumber company settlement of Wanakena, to Adirondack tourism and recreation, and to a century of community social life.","narrative":"Wanakena Presbyterian Church is a small wood-frame church on Second Street in the Adirondack hamlet of Wanakena, built in 1903. Its steepled-ell plan places an entry tower with a louvered belfry and pyramidal roof where two wings meet. The walls are clapboard, set on a mortared fieldstone foundation, and the interior keeps beaded-board paneling, colored-glass windows, an oak pulpit and a Sunday School room that could be opened to the nave. Benjamin D. Price, a prolific church designer whose plans were sold by catalog, produced the design, and the Rich Lumber Company built it as the company town took shape. Only two other examples of the design are known in the Adirondack Park. The church also reflects the hamlet's settlement, the later arrival of the Ranger School after the lumber company left, and the growth of recreation in the region. It has served as a meeting place for local groups and a venue for summer concerts, and its bell has long signaled emergencies.","period_of_significance":"1903-1957","architect_builder":"Architect: Price, Benjamin D.; Builder: Rich Lumber Company","architectural_style":"Late Victorian","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Still used as a religious facility; the form says the church is used for community meetings and summer concerts, and the building retains a very high level of original integrity.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.785469-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/07001015.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07001015/407337032e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07001015/407337032e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Mwanner","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Western_Adirondack_Presbyterian_Church,_Wanakena,_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Mwanner</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Western_Adirondack_Presbyterian_Church,_Wanakena,_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75321951","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanakena_Presbyterian_Church","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7967048"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/st-lawrence-county/wanakena-presbyterian-church-07001015/"}