{"nrhp_refnum":"87001083","name":"St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Parsonage and Cemetery","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Wurtemburg Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wurtemburg","county":"Dutchess County","state":"NY","lat":41.89815329500004,"lon":-73.87146346699996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-07-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["European","Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural church complex on a 3.6-acre parcel on Wurtemburg Road in the town of Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, New York. It includes a frame church begun in 1802, a cemetery, and a parsonage built about 1870.","why_significant":"The church is a distinctive example of a Federal period meeting house, a form rare in the Hudson Valley, despite its 1861 Romanesque remodeling. The parsonage is an intact example of a late nineteenth century hipped-roof frame house type common in Wurtemburg. The complex also marks the German Palatine farming community that settled the area.","narrative":"On a gentle knoll beside Wurtemburg Road in southeastern Rhinebeck stands a church complex that traces the story of a German farming settlement. The frame church was begun in 1802, enlarged with a tower in 1832 and remodeled in 1861. Its pedimented front, modillioned cornice and octagonal belfry reflect the Federal period, while arched doors, windows and interior ornament were added in the Romanesque taste. Behind it lies a cemetery with several hundred mostly nineteenth-century gravestones, linked to the congregation's first church on the site in 1759-60. Southeast of the church sits a two-story, five-bay Italianate parsonage, probably built in the 1870s, with a scroll-sawn verandah and largely unaltered interior. Wurtemburg was settled by Palatine Germans, and the complex is valued as a reminder of their role in developing the town's inland farmland. Federal meeting houses like this one are uncommon in the Hudson Valley, and the buildings retain a high degree of physical integrity.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal (church, with 1861 Romanesque remodeling); Italianate (parsonage)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as excellent; still in religious use, with the church, parsonage and cemetery described as substantially intact.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.561742-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/87001083.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001083/260119ee17-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001083/260119ee17-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"WindingRoad","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Pauls_Lutheran_Church_side_Rhinebeck_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">WindingRoad</a>, <a href=\"https://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_Pauls_Lutheran_Church_side_Rhinebeck_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75312719","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Paul%27s_Lutheran_Church_(Wurtemburg,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7591159"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/dutchess-county/st-pauls-lutheran-church-parsonage-and-cemetery-87001083/"}