{"nrhp_refnum":"72000884","name":"St. James Church","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"32 James St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.712215136000054,"lon":-73.99862848799995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-07-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"St. James Church is a one-story Greek Revival church building with a balcony and basement at 32 James Street in Manhattan, New York City, dated to 1837. It is a Catholic church built of stuccoed brick with brownstone trim.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it one of the finest Greek Revival churches in New York City, with an exceptionally fine recessed Doric portico and ornament. Its detail closely resembles the work of Minard Lafever, though no documentation names him as architect. It has largely kept its original appearance.","narrative":"St. James Church, at 32 James Street in lower Manhattan, is a Greek Revival church dated to 1837. It is a rectangular, one-story building with a balcony and basement, built of brick covered in brown stucco meant to resemble brownstone, with real brownstone trim. The five-bay west facade has a recessed porch with two Greek Doric columns, flanked by pilastered bays holding doors to stairs leading to the gallery, all beneath a low, broad pediment. Delicate anthemion, scroll and rosette ornament marks the lintel over the central doorway. Inside, a cast-iron-columned gallery carries an anthemion frieze, meander courses and rosettes, patterns found in Minard Lafever's pattern books. No documentation confirms Lafever as the architect. The side galleries were removed in 1948 and a later tower came down in 1929, but the church has largely kept its original look. It was recognized as one of the city's finest examples of Greek Revival church architecture.","period_of_significance":"19th Century (specific date 1837)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in use as a religious building; altered in 1948 when the side galleries were removed, and a post-Civil War tower was removed in 1929.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.514924-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/72000884.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000884/74155d4d12-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000884/74155d4d12-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Dmadeo","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St-james-church.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Dmadeo</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St-james-church.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"03000845","name":"Two Bridges Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/two-bridges-historic-district-03000845/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319931","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._James_Roman_Catholic_Church_(Manhattan)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7588396"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/st-james-church-72000884/"}