{"nrhp_refnum":"80003074","name":"Pilgrim Presbyterian Church","other_names":["Pilgrim Chapel"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1222 Ida St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cincinnati","county":"Hamilton County","state":"OH","lat":39.10998867500007,"lon":-84.49882923699994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-07-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Religion"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick church building, known as Pilgrim Chapel, at 1222 Ida Street in the Mount Adams neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, built in 1886 by contractor Charles E. Iliff, with an attached parish house or manse.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the chapel embodies nineteenth-century Eclectic architecture in Cincinnati and represents the chapel as an early Presbyterian preaching station. It is described as the only surviving nineteenth-century Cincinnati church that began as a mission, and the first Protestant church in the traditionally Catholic Mount Adams neighborhood. It is also credited to the skill of a prominent local builder and craftsmen.","narrative":"Pilgrim Chapel, at 1222 Ida Street in Cincinnati's Mount Adams neighborhood, is a rectangular two-story brick church completed in the late 1880s beside the Ida Street Bridge. It has a steeply pitched shingled roof, a central bell gable tower, stone quoins and string courses, and Gothic Revival pointed openings and rose windows. A simple brick manse is attached at the rear. Inside, a timber roof with braces and decorative wallpieces shows straightforward carpentry. The chapel began as a Presbyterian mission and preaching station, promoted by minister Dr. Frank C. Monfort as church members moved to the hilltops. Funds came from committees of First Presbyterian Church and Mount Adams, and the project was noted for drawing support from both Catholics and Protestants. It was the first Protestant church in the area and is the only surviving nineteenth-century Cincinnati church that began as a mission. Local contractor Charles E. Iliff built it.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Charles E. Iliff","architectural_style":"Eclectic, with Gothic Revival elements (reviewer also notes Romanesque and Gothic elements)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied and altered. The congregation was to dissolve at the end of February 1980, with the property reverting to the Cincinnati Presbytery.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.896954-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/80003074.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003074/341127dd81-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003074/341127dd81-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Photo by Greg Hume (Greg5030)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PilgrimPresbyterianChurch.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Photo by Greg Hume (Greg5030)</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PilgrimPresbyterianChurch.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989135","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrim_Presbyterian_Church","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7193948"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/hamilton-county/pilgrim-presbyterian-church-80003074/"}