{"nrhp_refnum":"89002086","name":"St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church","other_names":["St. Paul's Episcopal Church"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"199 Carroll St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Brooklyn","state":"NY","lat":40.682173541000054,"lon":-73.97316277699997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-12-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"St. Paul's Episcopal Church is a High Victorian Gothic church at 199 Carroll Street, at the corner of Clinton Street in the Carroll Gardens neighborhood of Brooklyn. It was built in 1866-69 to designs by R.M. Upjohn, and the complex includes the church with its parish hall extension and the St. Andrew's House rectory.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the church is an outstanding example of High Victorian Gothic ecclesiastical architecture in New York City, designed by a leading Victorian Gothicist. It also holds neo-Gothic additions made between 1909 and 1919, many designed by Ralph Adams Cram. The design shows Ruskinian influence in its cusped arches, dog-tooth moldings, naturalistic carving and polychromatic stonework.","narrative":"Set on the corner of Carroll and Clinton streets in Brooklyn's Carroll Gardens, this Episcopal church was built in 1866-69 from designs by R.M. Upjohn. Its walls are rough Greenwich bluestone trimmed with New Jersey and Ohio sandstone, giving a multicolored effect typical of High Victorian Gothic work influenced by the writer John Ruskin. A sandstone entrance porch with three cusped arches, a rose window and an unbuilt tower base shape the facade. Inside, a hammer-beam timber roof, stone arcade and black walnut pews survive from Upjohn's design. Between 1909 and 1919, under a new rector, Ralph Adams Cram designed side chapels, an organ loft, a pulpit and other fittings in the neo-Gothic style. A brick rectory, St. Andrew's House, stands beside the church. A 1987 fire damaged the interior, but the main structure survived and restoration followed. The church was listed for its architectural importance and its early twentieth-century additions.","period_of_significance":"1866-1919","architect_builder":"R.M. Upjohn","architectural_style":"Gothic (High Victorian Gothic)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a church. A 1987 fire damaged the floor, stained glass and interior finishes, and restoration began soon after. The exterior form is unaltered, though the roof slate had not yet been restored at the time of the form.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:44.62022-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/89002086.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002086/5c6b2e36d9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002086/5c6b2e36d9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Beyond My Ken","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Paul%27s_Episcopal_Church_of_Brooklyn.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Beyond My Ken</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:St._Paul%27s_Episcopal_Church_of_Brooklyn.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318529","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Paul%27s_Episcopal_Church_(Brooklyn)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7591094"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/brooklyn/st-pauls-protestant-episcopal-church-89002086/"}