{"nrhp_refnum":"76001232","name":"First Presbyterian Church of Oyster Bay","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"E. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Oyster Bay","county":"Nassau County","state":"NY","lat":40.87176026000003,"lon":-73.52866696699994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-12-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A wood-frame Presbyterian church on East Main Street in the village of Oyster Bay, Nassau County, New York, built in 1873 to a design by J. Cleveland Cady, with a nearby manse and later additions.","why_significant":"The church is described as a conspicuous landmark of Oyster Bay and a sophisticated example of balloon-frame ecclesiastical architecture in Nassau County. Cady's design is presented as a generous, articulate example of the 'stick style'. It also provides a visual link to the community's 19th-century history.","narrative":"Set on a hill at East Main and Pearl Streets in the village of Oyster Bay, this Presbyterian church was dedicated on September 24, 1873. New York architect J. Cleveland Cady designed it, and it cost about $16,000 on a lot donated by Henry DeForest. The congregation had been organized in 1844 and had built its first church in 1848. The wood-frame building has transverse gables, a seventy-five-foot tower with a chamfered spire, a gabled porte-cochere, trefoil windows in pointed arches and a stained glass rose window. Its walls use clapboards below and board-and-batten above, with elaborate bargeboards. A manse was completed in 1888, a Sunday school wing was added in 1901, and a church parlor followed in 1913. The nomination treats the church as a fine example of stick-style wood architecture and a conspicuous landmark linking the village to its nineteenth-century past. It still serves as a house of worship.","period_of_significance":"1873","architect_builder":"J. Cleveland Cady","architectural_style":"Stick style","criteria":[],"status_note":"Continues in use as a house of worship; the form lists the property as occupied, in good condition and on its original site.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:38.859141-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/76001232.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001232/2ab35f7b01-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001232/2ab35f7b01-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Inoysterbay at en.wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oyster_Bay_Presbyterian_Church.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Inoysterbay at en.wikipedia</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oyster_Bay_Presbyterian_Church.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319099","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Presbyterian_Church_of_Oyster_Bay","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5453702"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/nassau-county/first-presbyterian-church-of-oyster-bay-76001232/"}