{"nrhp_refnum":"79001648","name":"First Presbyterian Church and Pintard, Lewis, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Pintard Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New Rochelle","county":"Westchester County","state":"NY","lat":40.90456271700003,"lon":-73.78498818899999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-09-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Religion"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Colonial Revival church and its adjoining eighteenth-century manse, the Lewis Pintard House, on a three-acre site on Pintard Avenue in New Rochelle, Westchester County, New York. The church was designed by John Russell Pope and dedicated in 1929.","why_significant":"The church, designed in 1928 by John Russell Pope, received the Christian Herald award for 1929. The manse, built before 1710 and owned by prominent community and congregation members, is a rare survivor in a densely built area and has been used for church activities for over two hundred years. Together they reflect two stages in the congregation's history and the continuing influence of New Rochelle's first Huguenot settlers.","narrative":"On a three-acre site on Pintard Avenue in New Rochelle stand a Colonial Revival church and its manse, an eighteenth-century house linked to the church by an arcaded walkway. The congregation descends from French Huguenot settlers who arrived in 1688. After an 1860 church burned in 1926, John Russell Pope designed the new fieldstone building, dedicated in 1929, with an Ionic portico, a four-stage tower and an attached administration building. Pope moved and remodelled the house and sited the church to preserve the original landscape. He also encased the doorstep of the 1697 church in the tower room. The manse, built by Alexander Allaire before 1710, later belonged to merchant Pierre Vallade and then Lewis Pintard, a patriot appointed by General Washington in 1777 to aid Americans held in British prisons in New York City. The church received the Christian Herald award for 1929, and the house survives as a rare early dwelling in a densely built area.","period_of_significance":"1700-1799, 1900- (specific dates 1710, 1928)","architect_builder":"Church: Office of John Russell Pope","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival (church)","criteria":[],"status_note":"The property is occupied and in use as a church with its manse; the house also serves as a museum and private residence. A former wing serves as a Boy Scout meeting house.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:38.851478-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/79001648.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001648/6376392946-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001648/6376392946-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"ALT55-VictorM","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:First_Presbyterian_Church_and_Lewis_Pintard_House,_Pintard_Ave._New_Rochelle_,(French_church).JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">ALT55-VictorM</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:First_Presbyterian_Church_and_Lewis_Pintard_House,_Pintard_Ave._New_Rochelle_,(French_church).JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75323023","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Presbyterian_Church_and_Lewis_Pintard_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5453668"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/westchester-county/first-presbyterian-church-and-pintard-lewis-house-79001648/"}