{"nrhp_refnum":"76001676","name":"Irvine United Presbyterian Church","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Off U.S. 6","address_restricted":false,"city":"Irvine","county":"Warren County","state":"PA","lat":41.83822864900003,"lon":-79.27101447399997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-08-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A single-story stone Presbyterian church in Irvine, Warren County, Pennsylvania, built in the Greek Revival style in 1837. It has a gable roof and a fieldstone churchyard with a stone wall immediately behind it.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the church is architecturally significant for its refined design, which it describes as unusual for Western Pennsylvania. It is presented as an example of the small country church in its purest form, with little embellishment. The building is also said to remain in a relatively unchanged rural setting with its adjacent graveyard.","narrative":"Built in 1837 in Irvine, Warren County, this single-story gable-roofed church is constructed of cut, dressed and coursed fieldstone. Robert Shortt, a Scottish stone mason who had settled in the area in 1833, built it for Dr. William Irvine at an estimated cost of $900 apart from its benches and pulpit. The church is laid out three bays by three, with a fanlight above the entrance, an eight-panel door, and stone quoins, sills and window arches. Its front windows are false, with wooden shutters closing on blank masonry recesses, which were used to achieve a symmetrical facade. Its side windows are twenty-over-twenty sash. The nomination regards its refined Greek Revival design as unusual for western Pennsylvania rural churches. It also records that the church remains in its natural setting alongside its graveyard, and that it was documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Robert Shortt (stone mason and builder)","architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:30.368047-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/76001676.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001676/e1770debab-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001676/e1770debab-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Irvine_United_Presbyterian_Church_1937.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Irvine_United_Presbyterian_Church_1937.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995940","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irvine_United_Presbyterian_Church","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15228827"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/warren-county/irvine-united-presbyterian-church-76001676/"}