{"nrhp_refnum":"09001209","name":"Fort Washington Presbyterian Church","other_names":["Fort Washington Heights Presbyterian Church","Iglesia Presbyteriana Fort Washington Heights"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"21 Wadsworth Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.847407479000026,"lon":-73.93759094699993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2010-01-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Georgian Revival church building at 21 Wadsworth Avenue, at the corner of West 174th Street in the Washington Heights section of Upper Manhattan, designed by Thomas Hastings of Carrère & Hastings. It has a temple-fronted entrance, a five-stage tower and an attached Sunday school wing.","why_significant":"The nomination lists Architecture as the area of significance. It presents the church as a design by Thomas Hastings of Carrère & Hastings, conceived as a modern version of an old New England meeting house with a Colonial-style tower. The design draws on American Colonial church prototypes that trace back to Sir Christopher Wren's London parish churches.","narrative":"Fort Washington Presbyterian Church occupies a 100-by-100-foot corner lot at Wadsworth Avenue and West 174th Street in Washington Heights, Upper Manhattan. The building is a gable-roofed brick church faced in tan brick laid in Flemish bond, with Indiana limestone ornament. Its Wadsworth Avenue front has a projecting portico of four giant Tuscan Doric columns under a pediment, and a five-stage stepped tower rises above it. A recessed Sunday school wing extends along the north side. Inside, a basilica-plan sanctuary has a barrel-vaulted ceiling, a rear gallery, Corinthian pilasters, plaster cornices and a semi-circular apse. The design is credited to Thomas Hastings of Carrère & Hastings, who reportedly aimed to create a modern replica of an old New England meeting house. It draws on Colonial American churches descended from Christopher Wren's London parish churches. The church remains in religious use, though the tower shows cracking and damage to its steel supports.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Thomas Hastings of Carrère & Hastings","architectural_style":"Late 19th & 20th Century Revivals: Georgian Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a religious facility. The tower has cracked masonry and damage to its steel supports from weathering and lack of maintenance.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:47.838777-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/09001209.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09001209/69ccfe97b8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09001209/69ccfe97b8-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Jim.henderson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ft_Wash_Hts_Presb_Wadsworth_Av_174_jeh.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim.henderson</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ft_Wash_Hts_Presb_Wadsworth_Av_174_jeh.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100011048","name":"Dominican Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/dominican-historic-district-100011048/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319517","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Washington_Presbyterian_Church","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14706273"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/fort-washington-presbyterian-church-09001209/"}