{"nrhp_refnum":"82005391","name":"St. Philip's Church in the Highlands","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NY 9D","address_restricted":false,"city":"Garrison","county":"Putnam County","state":"NY","lat":41.38214874400006,"lon":-73.93927086399998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-10-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":[],"significance_levels":[],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Gothic Revival Episcopal church complex on Route 9-D in Garrison, Philipstown, Putnam County, New York. It includes the granite church (1861) designed by Richard Upjohn, a rectory, parish hall, sexton's house and carriage shed.","why_significant":"The complex is significant for its architecture and its association with Richard Upjohn, who designed the church for his own parish. The church and its dependent buildings embody the distinctive characteristics of Gothic Revival church architecture of the period, with excellent integrity of design, setting, materials and workmanship.","narrative":"St. Philip's Church in the Highlands is an Episcopal complex on Route 9-D in Garrison, Putnam County. Its centerpiece is a one-story Gothic Revival church of gray granite, built in 1861 to designs by Richard Upjohn, a member of the parish who gave the design as a gift. Smeaton Forson, a Scottish stone mason, supervised construction. The church has a steep slate roof, a southeast bell tower with a clock, and a timbered vaulted nave. Other buildings include a carriage shed from the 1880s, the Toucey Memorial Parish Hall of 1900, a stone and stucco rectory of 1911 replacing an earlier Upjohn-designed rectory, and a stucco sexton's house of 1917. The parish traces its origins to a chapel of 1771. The complex was listed for its architectural importance, its link to Upjohn, and the well-preserved Gothic Revival character of the church and its related buildings, which have changed little since the 1940s.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Church: Richard Upjohn, architect; Smeaton Forson, stone mason who supervised construction. Rectory, parish hall, sexton's house and carriage shed: architect and builder unknown.","architectural_style":"Gothic Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Church complex still in use for its original purposes; the sexton's house is occupied as a residence and needs some structural repairs.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:51.008675-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/82005391.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82005391/8c4306d7bb-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82005391/8c4306d7bb-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Philip%27s_Church_of_the_Highlands.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Philip%27s_Church_of_the_Highlands.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75321050","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Philip%27s_Church_in_the_Highlands","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2322911"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/putnam-county/st-philips-church-in-the-highlands-82005391/"}