{"nrhp_refnum":"08000513","name":"St. Andrew's Episcopal Church & Rectory","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"13 & 15 Walnut St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Walden","county":"Orange County","state":"NY","lat":41.56208407200006,"lon":-74.18994495699997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-06-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A brick Gothic Revival church (1871) with an adjoining brick Italianate rectory (1872) at 13 & 15 Walnut Street in the Village of Walden, Orange County, New York, with a chapel added in 1884.","why_significant":"The church is argued to be an important 19th-century ecclesiastical building that reflects the Ecclesiological phase of the Gothic Revival in its form, materials and interior. It was designed by Charles Babcock, son-in-law of Richard Upjohn, a former partner in R. Upjohn & Company and later the first professor of architecture at Cornell University. The rectory adds a modest Italianate companion to the complex.","narrative":"Standing on a corner at Walnut and Orchard streets in the Village of Walden, this church and rectory complex combines a brick Gothic Revival church built in 1871 with a brick rectory added in 1872. Charles Babcock, who had worked in Richard Upjohn's office and married Upjohn's daughter, designed the church. He later became the first professor of architecture at Cornell University. The building shows the influence of the Ecclesiological movement in its restrained brick and brownstone exterior, lancet windows and offset bell tower with broached spire. Inside, the worship space remains largely intact, with exposed hammer-beam trusses, wood furnishings and stained glass that includes windows from the J. & R. Lamb studios. A chapel was added in 1884 and later linked to the church by a hyphen. The rectory is a modest Italianate design with a Craftsman-style porch added around 1915. Together the buildings are valued as a notable example of mid-19th-century Episcopal church architecture and as a visual landmark near the village's civic center.","period_of_significance":"c. 1871-c. 1939","architect_builder":"Babcock, Charles (architect); Brown & McMeekin (masons); Crawford, Charles (carpenter); Riley, Thomas (roofer)","architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century: Gothic Revival; Late Victorian: Italianate","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Both the church and the rectory remain in their historic religious and domestic uses.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.904168-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/08000513.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000513/480f2aeaf1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000513/480f2aeaf1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Andrew%27s_Episcopal_Church,_Walden,_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</a>, <a href=\"http://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:St_Andrew%27s_Episcopal_Church,_Walden,_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320750","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Andrew%27s_Episcopal_Church_(Walden,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7586868"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/orange-county/st-andrews-episcopal-church-and-rectory-08000513/"}