{"nrhp_refnum":"89000305","name":"Clinton Corners Friends Church","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Salt Point Tnpk./Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Clinton Corners","county":"Dutchess County","state":"NY","lat":41.83189516300007,"lon":-73.76086994299999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-04-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Religion"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A church building on Salt Point Turnpike in the rural hamlet of Clinton Corners, Dutchess County, New York, built as a Quaker meeting house in 1890 with additions in 1914-1916 and the 1920s.","why_significant":"It is a distinctive example of a Quaker meeting house reflecting the nineteenth-century move of Orthodox Friends toward mainstream American Protestant worship and architecture. It is one of two Orthodox-phase meeting houses in the Dutchess County thematic group, along with the Poughkeepsie Meeting House on Montgomery Street. It retains integrity from its 1916-1920 period.","narrative":"Built in stages between 1890 and the 1920s, this church in the hamlet of Clinton Corners began as a Quaker meeting house. Orthodox Friends, more evangelical than the Hicksite Quakers who kept the older Creek Meeting House across the road, raised the original one-story building in 1890, with two entrances and Victorian trim. As the congregation adopted hymn-singing and Sunday school, it outgrew the building. Poughkeepsie architect George Randolf Freeman designed a Shingle style front section, dedicated in 1916, with round-arched stained-glass windows, a short square tower and a porch. A rear addition in the 1920s served as gymnasium, auditorium and Sunday school space. The interior keeps a paneled wall behind the preaching platform and sliding partitions, the main Quaker echoes. The congregation later left Quakerism and became the Evangelical Free Church in 1983. The building is valued as a record of the Orthodox Quaker phase in Dutchess County.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"1914 section: architect George Randolf Freeman, Poughkeepsie; builder Shaw and Harris, Clinton Corners","architectural_style":"Shingle style (1914 section); simple Victorian-era meeting house form for the 1890 core","criteria":[],"status_note":"Used as a church, in excellent condition, with no known threats; interior accessible by appointment.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.247165-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/89000305.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000305/5d854dc15f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000305/5d854dc15f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clinton_Corners_Friends_Church_Nov_11.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clinton_Corners_Friends_Church_Nov_11.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75312694","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Corners_Friends_Church","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5134092"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/dutchess-county/clinton-corners-friends-church-89000305/"}