{"nrhp_refnum":"08001089","name":"First Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Kingston","other_names":["Dutch Reformed Church","Old Dutch Church"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"272 Wall Street","address_restricted":false,"city":"City of Kingston","county":"Ulster County","state":"NY","lat":41.93292722700005,"lon":-74.01878381130116,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-10-06","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"2008-10-06","areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Renaissance Revival stone church at 272 Wall Street in the City of Kingston, Ulster County, New York, completed in 1852 to designs by architect Minard Lafever. It sits within the congregation's historic churchyard and cemetery.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the church is a nationally significant work that shows the maturity of Minard Lafever's career and a key shift in mid-nineteenth-century American architecture toward eclectic Renaissance Revival forms. It is described as Lafever's sole surviving, fully intact Renaissance Revival design, with integrity comparable to his other designated landmarks.","narrative":"Completed in 1852, this bluestone church on Wall Street in Kingston, New York, was designed by Minard Lafever, a New York architect known for church design and pattern books. Walls of locally quarried bluestone with limestone trim, a groin-vaulted plaster ceiling in the sanctuary, and an offset bell tower carrying a 225-foot spire give the building a strong presence within the congregation's burial ground. The Main Street front shows Palladian influence. A lecture hall was enlarged in 1882-83 under architect J. A. Wood, and a classroom annex was added in 1951. Original colored glass survives in the sanctuary windows, though a Tiffany memorial window replaced the original tinted glass behind the liturgical area. The church was designated a National Historic Landmark because it is considered Lafever's only intact Renaissance Revival work and shows how American architecture moved from Greek Revival toward more flexible eclectic styles in the 1850s. Its integrity is compared with his landmarks in Sag Harbor and Brooklyn Heights.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Minard Lafever (architect); J. A. Wood (architect of 1882-83 lecture hall expansion)","architectural_style":"Mid-nineteenth century: Renaissance Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still used as a religious facility; the nomination reports a high degree of physical integrity, with some deterioration of limestone dressings in places.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:38.887817-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/08001089_NHL.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08001089/8f8ae17f48-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08001089/8f8ae17f48-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Dutch_Church,_Kingston,_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:Old_Dutch_Church,_Kingston,_NY.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"75001231","name":"Kingston Stockade District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/kingston-stockade-district-75001231/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75316091","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Dutch_Church_(Kingston,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7083881"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/ulster-county/first-reformed-protestant-dutch-church-of-kingston-08001089/"}