{"nrhp_refnum":"89000461","name":"Willard Memorial Chapel-Welch Memorial Hall","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"17--19 Nelson St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Auburn","county":"Cayuga County","state":"NY","lat":42.93696894550004,"lon":-76.56377185997708,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-06-08","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"2005-04-05","areas_of_significance":["Art","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-part stone building at 17-19 Nelson Street in Auburn, Cayuga County, New York, built 1892-1894 for the former Auburn Theological Seminary. It joins Willard Memorial Chapel and Welch Memorial Hall with a small hyphen.","why_significant":"The nomination argues for national landmark status because of the building's association with Louis Comfort Tiffany and the Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company, which executed the chapel interior. The chapel is described as one of the most intact ecclesiastical spaces in America designed by the Tiffany Company. The building is also a Richardsonian Romanesque design by Andrew Jackson Warner.","narrative":"Willard Memorial Chapel and Welch Memorial Hall form a single stone building at 17-19 Nelson Street in Auburn, New York, erected between 1892 and 1894 for the Auburn Theological Seminary. Andrew Jackson Warner designed it in the Richardsonian Romanesque manner, using rock-faced gray limestone with red sandstone trim, slate roofs and a small copper-topped cupola over the link between the two parts. Some of the limestone came from an 1820 seminary building dismantled in 1892. The chapel interior was carried out by the Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company, with glass mosaic tiles, leaded opalescent windows, oak furnishings, wood hammer-beam trusses and stenciled ornament. It is described as one of the most intact church interiors in America designed by the Tiffany firm. Most other seminary buildings have been demolished, leaving this building on an open parcel. Welch Memorial Hall's former classrooms now serve as offices and meeting space, and the property is used as a museum.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Andrew Jackson Warner of Warner and Brockett (architect); Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company (chapel interior)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Richardsonian Romanesque","criteria":[],"status_note":"Now used as a museum; the former classrooms serve as office and meeting space. The chapel interior has had relatively few alterations since 1894.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.081137-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/89000461_NHL.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000461/e4e31f76f5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000461/e4e31f76f5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Lvklock","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WillardChapel.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Lvklock</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WillardChapel.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315657","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_Memorial_Chapel-Welch_Memorial_Hall","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8003459"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/cayuga-county/willard-memorial-chapel-welch-memorial-hall-89000461/"}