{"nrhp_refnum":"10000336","name":"Olivet Chapel","other_names":["Goshen Presbyterian Mission","St. John's African United Methodist Protestant Church"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"201 W Main St","address_restricted":false,"city":"Goshen","county":"Orange County","state":"NY","lat":41.403249509000034,"lon":-74.32761072399995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2010-06-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small Late Victorian Gothic brick church at 207 West Main Street in the Village of Goshen, Orange County, New York, built about 1910 as a Presbyterian mission chapel. It has a bluestone foundation and a gable-roofed entrance block (narthex) in front of a hipped-roof main block.","why_significant":"The chapel was built by Goshen's First Presbyterian Church as a mission to the village's African American community, replacing a frame chapel destroyed by fire in 1909. It is considered a modest but notable example of early 20th century church design. It is also tied to local social history, because since 1965 it has housed St. John's African Union Methodist Protestant Church, whose members included painter Horace Pippin.","narrative":"Olivet Chapel is a small brick church on West Main Street in Goshen, New York, built around 1910 by the First Presbyterian Church as a mission to the village's African American residents. It replaced a frame chapel, put up about 1903, that burned in 1909 when fire spread from a nearby lumber yard. The load-bearing brick building sits on a rough-cut bluestone foundation and combines a hipped-roof main block with a gabled entrance block. Gothic arched windows and red-painted wood cornices give it a modest Late Victorian character. Inside, the worship space still has plaster walls, beaded-board wainscot and ceiling, and curved oak-ended pews. The chapel served as a Presbyterian mission until about 1950. In 1965 St. John's African Union Methodist Protestant Church acquired it and still worships there. A marker outside honors painter Horace Pippin, a church member. The chapel was listed for its architecture and its role in the village's social history.","period_of_significance":"c. 1910-c. 1950","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Gothic","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still in religious use by St. John's African Union Methodist Protestant Church, which acquired it in 1965; the building retains its original footprint and a high degree of interior integrity.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:48.584195-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/10000336.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000336/c7f6fc4f17-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000336/c7f6fc4f17-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"JERRYE &amp; ROY KLOTZ, M.D.","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OLIVET_CHAPEL,_GOSHEN,_ORANGE_COUNTY,_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JERRYE &amp;amp; ROY KLOTZ, M.D.</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:OLIVET_CHAPEL,_GOSHEN,_ORANGE_COUNTY,_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320714","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivet_Chapel","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7087995"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/orange-county/olivet-chapel-10000336/"}