{"nrhp_refnum":"87001084","name":"Hillside Methodist Church","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"US 9","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rhinebeck","county":"Dutchess County","state":"NY","lat":41.88502695400007,"lon":-73.91122803899998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-07-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small one-story rustic stone chapel built about 1855 on a one-acre lot on the east side of Route 9, roughly three miles south of Rhinebeck village, Dutchess County, New York. A frame parish house from the early twentieth century is on the lot but does not contribute.","why_significant":"The chapel is described as a distinctive and outstanding local example of mid-nineteenth century Picturesque ecclesiastical architecture, combining scroll-sawn ornament and an open-frame bell tower with a traditional English rural parish church form. Its fieldstone construction recalls the region's eighteenth-century vernacular building tradition. It is also tied to the Olin family of nearby Glenburn, who started the congregation, and it keeps intact interior features.","narrative":"Hillside Methodist Chapel is a small stone church built about 1855 on a one-acre hillside lot beside Route 9, about three miles south of Rhinebeck village. It is a one-story, rectangular building of irregularly coursed fieldstone with a steep gable roof, bracketed eaves, scroll-sawn bargeboards and an open-frame bell tower. A projecting board-and-batten foyer shelters the entrance, and a round window sits in the front gable. Inside, plastered walls, a barrel-vaulted ceiling, a raised platform and original wooden furnishings, including a pump organ, survive. The congregation grew from a Sunday school begun by Julia M. Olin in the woods of her family's Glenburn estate, and the Olin family donated the land. Local tradition credits a local architect named Potter and a builder named John Brown. The chapel was listed as a local interpretation of Picturesque design, which was popular among Hudson Valley estate owners in the 1840s and 1850s. A later frame parish hall on the lot is not counted as contributing.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect Potter (local tradition); builder John Brown","architectural_style":"Picturesque (rural picturesque ecclesiastical architecture)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still used as a chapel; condition rated fair; described as retaining a high level of integrity.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:44.822414-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/87001084.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001084/12c72010a1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001084/12c72010a1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"WindingRoad","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hillside_Methodist_Church_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:Hillside_Methodist_Church_Rhinebeck_NY.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"90002219","name":"Hudson River Heritage Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/hudson-river-heritage-historic-district-90002219/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75312618","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillside_Methodist_Church","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5763958"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/dutchess-county/hillside-methodist-church-87001084/"}