{"nrhp_refnum":"82003347","name":"St. James' Episcopal Church and Parish House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2500 Jerome Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"The Bronx","state":"NY","lat":40.864005356000064,"lon":-73.89964021799994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-09-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Religion"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A stone Gothic Revival Episcopal church with an attached parish house, at 2500 Jerome Avenue in the Fordham section of the Bronx, New York City. The church was designed in 1863 and built in 1863-64, and the parish house was added in 1891.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as one of New York City's finest Gothic Revival religious buildings. It reflects the mid-nineteenth-century ecclesiology movement in Episcopal church design and was designed by Henry Dudley, a leading exponent of that movement in North America. It is also one of the few reminders of the period when this part of the city was farms and country estates.","narrative":"St. James' Episcopal Church is a small stone church with an attached parish house on a one-acre lawn at 2500 Jerome Avenue in the Fordham section of the Bronx. Designed in 1863 by English-born architect Henry Dudley and built in 1863-64, it is modeled on an Early English parish church, with random native stone, red sandstone trim, lancet windows, a rose window and a steep slate roof. Its clearly separated nave, aisles, transept, chancel and porch follow the ecclesiological ideas that shaped mid-nineteenth-century Episcopal design. Inside are timber arcades, cross vaults and stained glass from Munich and Tiffany Studios. The parish house, designed by Henry Kilburn, was added in 1891. The church was valued as one of the city's finest Gothic Revival religious buildings and as a survivor from the era when the area was rural, now surrounded by dense urban development beside St. James Park.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Henry Dudley; Henry Kilburn","architectural_style":"Gothic Revival (Early English style parish church modeled on ecclesiological principles)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied and in excellent condition, in religious use. A one-story office addition from 1959 is described as non-contributing.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:42.573073-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/82003347.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003347/11f18f8a2c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003347/11f18f8a2c-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Jim.henderson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._James_Episcopal_Church,_Bronx,_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim.henderson</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._James_Episcopal_Church,_Bronx,_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75316521","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._James%27_Episcopal_Church_and_Parish_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7588399"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/the-bronx/st-james-episcopal-church-and-parish-house-82003347/"}