{"nrhp_refnum":"11000293","name":"Young Memorial Church","other_names":["Brier Hill Congregational Church"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Jct. of School St. & NY 37","address_restricted":false,"city":"Brier Hill","county":"St. Lawrence County","state":"NY","lat":44.53375383300005,"lon":-75.66291639999997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-05-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Art"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A former Congregational church in the hamlet of Brier Hill, Town of Morristown, St. Lawrence County, New York, built 1907-1908 to a design by Samuel D.P. Williams of Ogdensburg.","why_significant":"The church is argued to be significant for art and architecture as an intact example of Arts & Crafts design, combining fieldstone and wood shingles with Gothic elements and an Akron Plan interior. It also holds a set of opalescent memorial windows made in 1907 by Harry James Horwood of Ogdensburg.","narrative":"Young Memorial Church is a shingle-and-stone building at the corner of Route 37 and School Street in the hamlet of Brier Hill, Town of Morristown. Built in 1907-1908 and dedicated in June 1908, it was designed by Samuel D.P. Williams of Ogdensburg. A square two-story tower with a large stone arch serves as the entrance and bell tower. Fieldstone forms the lower walls, with red-painted wood shingles above and stone buttresses at the corners. Inside, the sanctuary follows the Akron Plan, with semicircular pews and sliding wooden partitions that open onto a meeting room and a Ladies Parlor. Opalescent memorial windows installed in 1907 were made by Harry James Horwood of Ogdensburg. The building was valued as a well-preserved Arts and Crafts church that blends natural materials with Gothic and Shingle-style references. It served Congregational and later Baptist congregations until 1985 and is now vacant, with a community group working toward restoration.","period_of_significance":"1906-1960","architect_builder":"Samuel D.P. Williams (architect)","architectural_style":"Early 20th Century/Arts & Crafts","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The church is now vacant; a local community group is working to fund restoration and find new uses for the building.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:48.638797-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/11000293.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000293/5a81591661-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000293/5a81591661-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"FloraDufresne","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Young_Memorial_Church.png\" rel=\"noopener\">FloraDufresne</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:Young_Memorial_Church.png"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75321955","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Memorial_Church","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8058288"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/st-lawrence-county/young-memorial-church-11000293/"}