{"nrhp_refnum":"08001032","name":"West Delhi Presbyterian Church, Manse, and Cemetery","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"18 and 45 Sutherland Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"West Delhi","county":"Delaware County","state":"NY","lat":42.302193111000065,"lon":-75.00715394399998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-11-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural Presbyterian complex on Sutherland Road in West Delhi, Delaware County, New York, made up of a one-story wood-frame church built in 1892, a manse built c1841 and altered in the 1890s, and the community cemetery that developed from the 1840s.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the church is a distinctive, intact example of late nineteenth-century religious architecture in Delaware County and is tied to the settlement history of Delhi. It was the social center of a close-knit Scottish Presbyterian farming community. The manse and cemetery document that community's long history.","narrative":"West Delhi is a small crossroads settlement in the northwest corner of the town of Delhi, surrounded by farmland. Its core is a church, a manse and a cemetery along Sutherland Road. The one-story wood-frame church was built in 1892 as the congregation's second building, largely by volunteers. It has a steep gable roof, lancet-arched windows with stained glass, and an interior of vestibule, auditorium and platform with carved oak pews and an enclosed gallery. Vinyl siding now covers the clapboard, and a basement was added in the 1950s. The manse dates from about 1841 and was enlarged in the late nineteenth century. The cemetery holds most of the settlement-era families, and some stones read \"native of Scotland.\" The group was listed for its role in the community life of Scottish Presbyterian farmers who settled the area from the 1830s, and for its largely intact late Victorian church.","period_of_significance":"c1840-1892","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The church still serves a small, active congregation; it retains an exceptionally high degree of integrity, though vinyl siding and handicapped access features have been added.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.641554-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/08001032.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08001032/f53151e8f9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08001032/f53151e8f9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"ErixS","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:West_Delhi_Presbyterian_Church,_West_Delhi_NY.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">ErixS</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:West_Delhi_Presbyterian_Church,_West_Delhi_NY.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75317287","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Delhi_Presbyterian_Church,_Manse,_and_Cemetery","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7984939"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/delaware-county/west-delhi-presbyterian-church-manse-and-cemetery-08001032/"}