{"nrhp_refnum":"80002721","name":"St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"22 Barclay St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.712309024000035,"lon":-74.00951877099999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-04-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church is a Greek Revival church building at 22 Barclay Street, Manhattan, at the corner of Barclay and Church Streets, built 1836-1840 to designs by John R. Haggerty and Thomas Thomas.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it the foremost and finest Greek Revival church in New York City and one of only two Manhattan churches with a full temple front. Its site holds the oldest place of continuous Roman Catholic worship in the city, with a parish founded in 1785. The present building has been in continuous use since 1840.","narrative":"St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church at 22 Barclay Street in lower Manhattan is a granite and schist Greek temple-church, with a portico of six widely spaced Ionic columns beneath a low pediment. John R. Haggerty designed the exterior, drawing on the Temple on the Ilissus at Athens, and withdrew in 1838; Thomas Thomas, credited with the interior, completed the building in 1840. Inside, a single unobstructed space two and a half stories high is finished with a rear gallery carried on two fluted Ionic columns, a fine plaster ceiling and an original organ screen. The site is the oldest place of continuous Roman Catholic worship in New York City. The parish dates to 1785, when a first church was begun on the land; that building was razed in 1836. The present church is the second on the site and has served its congregation without interruption since 1840. It is valued as an outstanding, monumental example of Greek Revival design.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899 (specific dates 1836-1840)","architect_builder":"John R. Haggerty and Thomas Thomas","architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied, in excellent condition, unaltered, on its original site, and in religious use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:41.230896-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/80002721.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002721/859a708f62-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002721/859a708f62-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Beyond My Ken","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Peter%27s_Roman_Catholic_Church_22_Barclay_Street.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:St._Peter%27s_Roman_Catholic_Church_22_Barclay_Street.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319943","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Peter%27s_Church_(Manhattan)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3916688"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/st-peters-roman-catholic-church-80002721/"}