{"nrhp_refnum":"73001189","name":"Church of the Nazarene","other_names":["Boquet Chapel"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"W of Essex on NY 22","address_restricted":false,"city":"Essex","county":"Essex County","state":"NY","lat":44.30212825900003,"lon":-73.40158030399994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-06-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A white board-and-batten chapel on the east side of Route 22 in the hamlet of Boquet, town of Essex, Essex County, New York, built in 1855 as a mission chapel and now the Church of the Nazarene (also called Boquet Chapel).","why_significant":"It is described as a remarkably untouched example of the simplest of Richard Upjohn's standard church designs, closely following his published plan for a small mission chapel in Rural Architecture. Few examples of this prototype survive with such integrity. Its grove setting is also valued as an embodiment of the mid-nineteenth century ideal of the rural chapel in a grove.","narrative":"Set well back from Route 22 in a grove of pine trees, this white board-and-batten chapel in the hamlet of Boquet was built in 1855 as a mission chapel for St. John's Episcopal Church in Essex Village. It follows Richard Upjohn's published design for a small mission chapel, with a rectangular plan seating about 125, no porch or tower, and a single open room without a chancel. Inside, five wooden arches springing from freestanding wooden posts carry the roof, lanterns light the nave, and the original wood pews remain in use. The builder is unknown, but the source of the design is clearly Upjohn's book, which was meant for remote parishes that could afford little more than a local builder. The chapel is valued for its high degree of survival, since few examples of this prototype remain so intact, and for its pine-grove setting, which reflects the nineteenth-century ideal of the rural chapel.","period_of_significance":"1855","architect_builder":"Design after Richard Upjohn's published plan (Rural Architecture); the Adirondack builder is unknown","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied, in good condition, in religious use; interior has had no significant alterations since the mid-nineteenth century.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.459899-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/73001189.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001189/24a61ecb2a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001189/24a61ecb2a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Bryan Nelson Elder","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Foothills_Baptist_Church_in_Boquet_(Essex),_NY.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Bryan Nelson Elder</a>, <a href=\"https://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:Foothills_Baptist_Church_in_Boquet_(Essex),_NY.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75317761","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foothills_Baptist_Church_(Essex,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5466500"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/essex-county/church-of-the-nazarene-73001189/"}