{"nrhp_refnum":"82003399","name":"Brighton Heights Reformed Church","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"320 St. Mark","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Staten Island","state":"NY","lat":40.641530930000044,"lon":-74.07832984399994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-06-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A wooden church building at 320 Saint Mark's Place in the New Brighton section of Staten Island, New York, built in 1863-64 to designs by builder/architect John Correja.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as a late example of Carpenter's Gothic, the wooden vernacular branch of American Gothic Revival architecture. It is also described as a reminder of Staten Island's role in the romantic picturesque suburb and as a remnant of the village of New Brighton. The congregation's roots trace to an early missionary chapel tied to the Quarantine Hospital.","narrative":"Brighton Heights Reformed Church is a white clapboard church at the corner of St. Mark's Place and Fort Place on Staten Island. Built in 1863-64 over a brick core, it was designed by New York builder/architect John Correja after a planned stone church proved too costly for the congregation. Its facade is divided into three parts, with a central tower, applied wooden buttresses, pointed-arched entrances and Perpendicular Gothic tracery, and an eight-faceted wooden spire crowns the tower. Inside, a pointed-arch tunnel vault rises over the nave, and the side aisles hold memorial stained glass from 1910 to 1963. A church hall was added at the rear in 1881. The building is valued as a late example of Carpenter's Gothic and as a surviving piece of the picturesque suburb of New Brighton. The congregation began as a missionary chapel connected with the Quarantine Hospital and moved to this site from Tompkinsville. Its spire is still visible from Upper New York Bay.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"John Correja","architectural_style":"Carpenter's Gothic (Gothic Revival)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in use as a religious building; condition listed as excellent and altered, on its original site.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:43.531057-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/82003399.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003399/2839f39df1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003399/2839f39df1-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Jim.henderson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brighton_Heights_Reformed_Ch_SI_jeh.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim.henderson</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brighton_Heights_Reformed_Ch_SI_jeh.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75321335","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_Heights_Reformed_Church","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4967659"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/staten-island/brighton-heights-reformed-church-82003399/"}