{"nrhp_refnum":"80002677","name":"Chapel of the Intercession Complex and Trinity Cemetery","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"550 W. 155th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.832195049000035,"lon":-73.94664089063826,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-07-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Military","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A religious complex and adjoining cemetery at 550 West 155th Street in Manhattan, New York City. The Late English Gothic Revival chapel, parish house and vicarage were built 1911-14 to designs by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, and sit within the roughly 23-acre Trinity Church Cemetery, established in 1842.","why_significant":"The chapel is a notable example of Late Gothic Revival religious architecture based on English precedents, and a major work of Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue. The surrounding cemetery was designed by landscape architect Calvert Vaux, holds the graves of many notable New Yorkers, and has distinctive monuments. It is also the site of Revolutionary War defenses built in September 1776.","narrative":"At 550 West 155th Street in Manhattan, a Gothic Revival chapel, cloister, parish house and vicarage sit within the hilly grounds of Trinity Church Cemetery. Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue designed the chapel, built between 1911 and 1914, using English country church models. Its interior includes a gilded and polychromed hammerbeam ceiling, loose chairs instead of pews, and a marble altar set with more than 1,500 stones from religious and historical sites. Goodhue's own tomb, with an effigy by Lee Lawrie, is in the north transept wall. The cemetery, about 23 acres, dates from 1842 and was shaped by Calvert Vaux, who designed its boundary walls, serpentine drives and walks, and a Victorian Gothic gate house completed in 1883. Burials include John James Audubon, Clement Clarke Moore and members of the Astor family. In September 1776 the ground also held the main defenses of Washington's army until Fort Washington fell in November.","period_of_significance":"Trinity Church Cemetery 1842, 1871-83; Chapel 1911-14","architect_builder":"Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue (chapel); Calvert Vaux (cemetery)","architectural_style":"Late English Gothic Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as excellent and unaltered; the chapel complex and cemetery are occupied and in religious and cemetery use. A modern marble funeral chapel and mausoleum building was recently added in the cemetery's Western Division.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:42.887621-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/80002677.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002677/202355863c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002677/202355863c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Beyond My Ken","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church_of_the_Intercession_(Manhattan).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Beyond My Ken</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:Church_of_the_Intercession_(Manhattan).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319368","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapel_of_the_Intercession_Complex_and_Trinity_Cemetery","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47205806"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/chapel-of-the-intercession-complex-and-trinity-cemetery-80002677/"}