{"nrhp_refnum":"12000369","name":"First Free Will Baptist Church of Pike","other_names":["Pike Baptist Church"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"72 Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pike","county":"Wyoming County","state":"NY","lat":42.556742523000025,"lon":-78.15601705399996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2012-06-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A brick Gothic Revival church at 72 Main Street in the village of Pike, Wyoming County, New York, built in 1881 and dedicated in 1882, with a baptistery and kitchen added later.","why_significant":"The church is significant under Criterion C in architecture as a representative late nineteenth century Gothic Revival church. It is also the last surviving historic religious building in the small rural community of Pike. It retains a high degree of integrity despite the 1963 removal of its steeple.","narrative":"Built in 1881 on Main Street in the village of Pike, this L-shaped brick church was dedicated in 1882 for a Free Will Baptist congregation that had moved to the village from Eagle Valley in 1859. Pastor J. H. Durkee guided construction of a design copied from a church he had overseen in Phoenix, New York; the builder or designer was never recorded. The building follows the rural English Gothic model, with a single asymmetrical bell tower, pointed-arch windows with brick lintels, corner buttresses and leaded glass windows with stained glass borders. Inside, an auditorium-style sanctuary holds pews, chairs and a pulpit made around 1882 by local furniture makers Kellogg and Crary. A baptistery was added in 1917 and a kitchen wing in 1926, while the steeple was removed in 1963. It is considered significant for its architecture and as the last surviving historic religious building in Pike, still serving as a church.","period_of_significance":"1881-1926","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"Late Victorian Gothic","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a church; the steeple was removed in 1963 and the building retains a high degree of integrity.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:47.816065-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/12000369.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000369/75e264454e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000369/75e264454e-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_Free_Will_Baptist_Church_of_Pike_Pike_NY_Nov_10.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_Free_Will_Baptist_Church_of_Pike_Pike_NY_Nov_10.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75323332","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Free_Will_Baptist_Church_of_Pike","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5453035"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/wyoming-county/first-free-will-baptist-church-of-pike-12000369/"}