{"nrhp_refnum":"75001182","name":"Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Peter","other_names":["Old Stone Church and Dependencies"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"2.25 mi. N of Rhinebeck on U.S. 9","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rhinebeck","county":"Dutchess County","state":"NY","lat":41.96269523700005,"lon":-73.88625437499996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-04-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small rural complex on the old New York–Albany Post Road (U.S. Route 9) north of Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, New York, made up of a fieldstone Lutheran church (1786, altered 1823-24), a frame parsonage (1798) and a frame schoolhouse (c. 1833).","why_significant":"The nomination presents the Old Stone Church as a fine example of vernacular ecclesiastical architecture of the late 18th and early 19th centuries in the Hudson Valley. Together with the parsonage and schoolhouse, it forms a social district representing the German agricultural community that the complex served. The parsonage was also the birthplace of John Quitman, who became a general in the Mexican War and Governor of Mississippi.","narrative":"Beside the old New York–Albany Post Road north of Rhinebeck, a fieldstone church, a frame parsonage and a small schoolhouse stand together in a rural setting. The church was built in 1786 by a Lutheran congregation descended from Palatine refugees who settled on Beekman lands. In 1823-24 the builder Stephen McCarty reworked it for $3,000, moving the entrance to the south end, adding aisles and a new pulpit, and raising a four-stage tower. The parsonage, built in 1798 for Reverend Fredrich Quitman, is a two-story frame house with brick nogging; his son John Quitman, later a Mexican War general and Mississippi governor, was born there. The schoolhouse dates from about 1833. As nearby Red Hook and Rhinebeck grew, the congregation declined, and the buildings stayed in their rural context. Today the church hosts occasional meetings, the schoolhouse is a museum, and a civic group uses the parsonage.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Stephen McCarty of Rhinebeck (1823 alterations and 1824 tower)","architectural_style":"Vernacular ecclesiastical architecture; parsonage mantels in a vernacular Federal style","criteria":[],"status_note":"Church used for periodic congregation meetings and weekly fellowship meetings since 1960; schoolhouse serves as a museum; parsonage purchased by a civic group for community use. Condition marked fair; altered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:38.827305-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/75001182.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001182/ec9dd828bd-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001182/ec9dd828bd-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Evangelical_Lutheran_Church_of_St_Peter,_Rhinebeck,_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</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:Evangelical_Lutheran_Church_of_St_Peter,_Rhinebeck,_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75312584","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelical_Lutheran_Church_of_St._Peter","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5415702"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/dutchess-county/evangelical-lutheran-church-of-st-peter-75001182/"}