{"nrhp_refnum":"86002511","name":"All Saints' Chapel","other_names":["Rosendale Library"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rosendale","county":"Ulster County","state":"NY","lat":41.84566912200006,"lon":-74.07595601499997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-09-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small one-story Gothic Revival chapel on Main Street in the village of Rosendale, Ulster County, New York, built 1876-1877 and later converted to a library, with a 1970s west wing added.","why_significant":"The chapel is significant as an unusual local interpretation of Gothic Revival church architecture, based on English rural parish churches with Venetian Gothic decorative references drawn from John Ruskin. Its walls are built of local natural cement, cement rock and brick, with embedded shells, and so symbolize the cement and brick industries that drove Rosendale's nineteenth-century economy.","narrative":"Built in 1876-1877 on Main Street in Rosendale, All Saints' Chapel is a small Gothic Revival church with a rectangular chancel, a steep slate roof patterned with scallops and flowers, and a hexagonal spire above a short tower. Its walls are uncoursed cement rock rubble laid in local natural cement, partly plastered over so the surface looks roughly stuccoed, and set with embedded shells and brick arches around the openings. The design follows English rural parish churches, with decorative nods to Venetian Gothic sources popularized by John Ruskin. The materials came from local clay and limestone deposits that supported Rosendale's cement and brick industries, making the building a visible reminder of the village's economic base. The chapel began as an Episcopal mission, became a parish in 1893, and closed in 1956 after a flood. It was bought in 1957 to prevent demolition and opened as a library in 1959. A fire in 1975 led to renovation and a new west wing.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899 (specific dates 1876-1877)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Gothic Revival (Early English Gothic parish church model with Ruskinian Gothic references)","criteria":[],"status_note":"In use as the Rosendale Library; condition listed as excellent and altered, with a west wing added in the early 1970s and renovations after a 1975 fire.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.185086-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/86002511.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002511/1d2a03b80f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002511/1d2a03b80f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rosendale,_NY,_library_building.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:Rosendale,_NY,_library_building.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322538","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosendale_Library","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7368554"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/ulster-county/all-saints-chapel-86002511/"}