{"nrhp_refnum":"11000752","name":"First Baptist Church","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"124 Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Brockport","county":"Monroe County","state":"NY","lat":43.21387045000006,"lon":-77.93954522899998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-10-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Baptist church building at 124 Main Street in Brockport, Monroe County, New York, originally built in 1863-64 and extensively remodeled in the 1920s, with a large Social and Educational wing added in 1924-25.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a distinguished local example of Collegiate Gothic church design, created by regional architects and builders. It also reflects changing Protestant congregational needs in early twentieth-century upstate New York, including the shift toward recreational and educational programming.","narrative":"This brick church on Main Street in Brockport began as a Romanesque Revival building, completed in 1864 to designs by William White of Syracuse. In 1924-25 the Rochester firm of Foote & Carpenter added a two-story Social and Educational wing in a Tudor Revival style, with a brick first story and half-timbered stucco above. The congregation then had the old sanctuary reworked in the Late or Collegiate Gothic mode, with Charles A. Carpenter as supervising architect and N.L. Cole of Holley as builder. The remodeled church was dedicated on May 19, 1929. Carpenter reversed the interior orientation, placing a shallow chancel at the Main Street end and moving the main access to a transverse hall linking the sanctuary to fellowship, classroom and office spaces. The design used brick with cast stone trim, a more economical choice than cut stone. It is recognized as a good local example of Collegiate Gothic church design and of the institutional church movement's influence on building plans.","period_of_significance":"1924-1929","architect_builder":"Foote, Orlando K. and Carpenter, Charles A.; N.L. Cole, builder","architectural_style":"Late Gothic Revival; Tudor Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Current function is listed as religious facility and church school, indicating continued use as a church.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:48.880369-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/11000752.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000752/33b0a59ab8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000752/33b0a59ab8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:First_Baptist_Church_Brockport_NY_Oct_09.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:First_Baptist_Church_Brockport_NY_Oct_09.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100006145","name":"Brockport West Side Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/brockport-west-side-historic-district-100006145/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318812","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Baptist_Church_(Brockport,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14706269"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/monroe-county/first-baptist-church-11000752/"}