{"nrhp_refnum":"73001253","name":"Church of the Holy Cross","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"136 8th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Troy","county":"Rensselaer County","state":"NY","lat":42.732528684000044,"lon":-73.68323299399998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-06-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture","Religion","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A complex of three connected buildings at 136 Eighth Street in Troy, New York: a Gothic Revival church, a manse (parsonage) and the Mary Warren Free Institute, built between 1844 and 1863 on a slope overlooking downtown.","why_significant":"The nomination calls the complex an important example of mid-19th century American Gothic Revival church architecture. The church is the work of two nationally significant architects, Alexander Jackson Davis and Richard Upjohn. It is also tied to the Warren family's charitable work and to experiments in church music that led to the first full choral service in an American Episcopal church.","narrative":"Three connected buildings on the east side of Eighth Street in Troy make up the Church of the Holy Cross complex: the church, a manse to its north, and the T-shaped Mary Warren Free Institute set back on the hillside. Mary Bouton Warren founded the church in the early 1840s as a free parish church of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, to give religious instruction and singing training to girls at her charity day school. Alexander Jackson Davis planned the original chapel, first used at Christmas 1844. Richard Upjohn designed the enlargement with a chancel, consecrated in 1848. The parsonage followed in 1857, a tower and ante-chapel by Henry Dudley in 1859, and the institute in 1863. Pointed arches, tan and gray random-coursed stone and slate roofs unify the group. Interest in choral worship, shared by Nathan Warren and the Rev. John I. Tucker, produced the first full choral service in an American Episcopal church.","period_of_significance":"19th Century","architect_builder":"Alexander Jackson Davis (nave, 1844); Richard M. Upjohn (chancel, 1848); Henry Dudley (ante-chapel and tower, 1859); parsonage and institute attributed to Nathan Warren","architectural_style":"American Gothic Revival ecclesiastical architecture","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied, in good condition, and little altered; used for religious purposes.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.883072-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/73001253.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001253/7b7433a703-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001253/7b7433a703-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Unknown authorUnknown author","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church_of_the_Holy_Cross,_Eighth_%26_Grand_Streets,_Troy_(Rensselaer_County,_New_York).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Unknown authorUnknown author</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church_of_the_Holy_Cross,_Eighth_%26_Grand_Streets,_Troy_(Rensselaer_County,_New_York).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75321198","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Holy_Cross_(Troy,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5117897"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/rensselaer-county/church-of-the-holy-cross-73001253/"}