{"nrhp_refnum":"09000039","name":"Jamesport Meeting House","other_names":["Jamesport Congregational Church"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1590 Main Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Jamesport","county":"Suffolk County","state":"NY","lat":40.95189692100007,"lon":-72.58062897399998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-02-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, gable-fronted wood-frame church at 1590 Main Road in the hamlet of Jamesport, Town of Riverhead, Suffolk County, New York. It stands on a site donated for a church in 1731 and was rebuilt in 1859.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the 1859 building is significant for its vernacular Greek Revival architecture, with a later Colonial Revival portico and a lecture room addition. It was the second meeting house on the site and served one of the first religious groups in what became the Town of Riverhead. It is also one of the oldest buildings in Jamesport and the most intact in the local historic district.","narrative":"Jamesport Meeting House is a shingled, timber-framed church at the corner of Main Road and Manor Lane in Jamesport, on Long Island's North Fork. The congregation first built on the site in 1731, and master builder Rogers Aldrich rebuilt the structure in 1859, enlarging the footprint, adding larger windows and placing the entrance in a projecting steeple tower. The result is a restrained, vernacular Greek Revival sanctuary. Later changes include a lecture room designed by Cuyler B. Tuthill in 1897, pressed-tin interior finishes from about 1898, a shorter mansard-roofed steeple after lightning destroyed the original in 1900, and a Doric portico added in 1912. Foundation stones and interior wainscoting survive from the 1731 building. The church was the first religious building in what is now the Town of Riverhead and is the most intact building in the locally designated Jamesport Hamlet Historic District. It was listed for its architecture and its role in the hamlet's growth.","period_of_significance":"1859-1957","architect_builder":"Rogers Aldrich; Cuyler Tuthill (1898 addition)","architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Listed current function is vacant. The congregation merged with another in the 1970s, and a Unitarian Universalist fellowship began renting the building in 2005 intending to acquire and preserve it.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:54.076923-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/09000039.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000039/0cc8dcaba9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000039/0cc8dcaba9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"DanTD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jamesport_Meeting_House_blocked_by_Chevy_Silverado.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">DanTD</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jamesport_Meeting_House_blocked_by_Chevy_Silverado.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322156","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamesport_Meeting_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14706624"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/suffolk-county/jamesport-meeting-house-09000039/"}