{"nrhp_refnum":"74000761","name":"St. James Episcopal Church","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NE corner of MacArthur and Broadway","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lewiston","county":"Fulton County","state":"IL","lat":40.39892530700007,"lon":-90.14234700899999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-12-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"St. James Episcopal Church is a small red brick Gothic-style parish church at the northeast corner of MacArthur and Broadway in Lewistown, Fulton County, Illinois. Its cornerstone was laid in 1863 and the building was finished and occupied in April 1865.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it one of the most perfect examples in Illinois of a small parish church designed according to ecclesiological principles. It is also valued as an elegant, sophisticated eastern design transplanted to a small Midwestern community. It is an early work of Edward Tuckerman Potter, a leading ecclesiastical architect in the East.","narrative":"St. James Episcopal Church is a small parish church in Lewistown, Illinois, built of red brick on a rectangular plan measuring 26 by 66 feet. It has lancet windows, angle buttresses, a diminutive bell tower at the southwest corner, and decorative brickwork including sawtooth edges and X-shaped patterns. Inside, open trusses of modified hammer-beam design carry the roof, and a wooden chancel screen frames the altar. The parish was organized in 1860, and Senior Warden Corning Judd led the effort to build, raising $6,000 of the $8,000 cost in the East. He brought back plans by Philadelphia architect Edward Tuckerman Potter, calling for a longitudinal plan, chancel, side entrance and Medieval details in line with ecclesiological ideas. The cornerstone was laid in 1863 and the church was occupied in 1865. It is regarded as an outstanding Illinois example of this church type and an early work by Potter.","period_of_significance":"1861-63","architect_builder":"Architect Edward Tuckerman Potter; H.V.V. Clute, master carpenter; Robert Turner of Peoria, ornamental brickwork","architectural_style":"Ecclesiological small parish church with Medieval (Gothic) details","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in excellent condition, in religious use, occupied and unaltered on its original site per the form (a reviewer note suggests it should be marked altered).","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.011701-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/78/8928/28892878/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/74000761.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74000761/3afcf8b7e5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74000761/3afcf8b7e5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Boscophotos","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Image_St._James.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Boscophotos</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:Image_St._James.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892878","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._James_Episcopal_Church_(Lewistown,_Illinois)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7588479"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/fulton-county/st-james-episcopal-church-74000761/"}