{"nrhp_refnum":"75001606","name":"Beulah Presbyterian Church","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Beulah and McCready Rds.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Churchill","county":"Allegheny County","state":"PA","lat":40.44709127200008,"lon":-79.84828759799996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-11-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A brick Presbyterian church in Churchill, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, built in a late Georgian form with a box-like meetinghouse plan containing one large room.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the church is a fine example of a previous architectural style lingering in an outlying country area, built when the Greek Revival was at its peak. It describes the building as extremely simple compared with most Georgian churches and says it is of historic, architectural and religious significance to Western Pennsylvania.","narrative":"Built of brick laid in common bond, the Beulah Presbyterian Church in Churchill, Allegheny County, dates from 1837. It follows the Georgian meetinghouse concept: a box-like mass holding one large room, with a formal gable end facing the street, two doors, a central window and a semi-circular pedimented pitch. Its slender window mullions, patera-decorated flat lintels and s-shaped tie-beam ends carry Adamesque (Federal) detailing, while the pedimented roof, trabeated doors and windows and oblong transoms point to the Greek Revival, which was at its peak when it was built. Compared with most Georgian churches, which are two stories with an ornamented cornice, this church is markedly plain. The nomination treats it as a rare survival of an older style in a rural setting, and as significant for its architecture and for its religious history in Western Pennsylvania. It has been used continuously as a church since its construction and remains in very good condition.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Georgian survival with Greek Revival and Adamesque (Federal) elements","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Continuously used as a church since 1837 and in very good condition; a newer church has been built to the east, leaving the old building in a subsidiary position.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:30.173222-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/75001606.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001606/bd34f14121-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001606/bd34f14121-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Lee Paxton","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BeulahPresbyterianChurch.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Lee Paxton</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BeulahPresbyterianChurch.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995047","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beulah_Presbyterian_Church","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4899277"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/allegheny-county/beulah-presbyterian-church-75001606/"}