{"nrhp_refnum":"90000686","name":"St. Luke's Episcopal Church","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"17 Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Brockport","county":"Monroe County","state":"NY","lat":43.21299645400006,"lon":-77.93851837499994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-04-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A church complex at 17 Main Street in Brockport, Monroe County, New York, made up of an 1855 Gothic Revival fieldstone church and an attached 1903 Romanesque-style parish hall (the Cary Parish House) built of Medina sandstone.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the church is an intact, representative example of mid-nineteenth century Gothic Revival church architecture in Brockport, shaped by the ecclesiology movement and the writings of John Ruskin. It retains a high degree of integrity and shows how a small rural congregation grew over time with the prosperity brought by the Erie Canal. The attached parish house is counted as a contributing building.","narrative":"Standing at the corner of Main and State Streets in Brockport, this church complex combines a fieldstone Gothic Revival church, begun in 1854 and occupied in 1855, with an attached Romanesque-style parish house added in 1903. The church has a three-story bell tower, pointed-arch stained glass windows, and a steeply pitched roof. A chancel was added in 1882-84, and the interior keeps its open timber trusses and several windows made by the Tiffany studios. The Cary Parish House, built of Medina sandstone, was financed by James B. Cary and Martha Shannon and was later altered to add Sunday School rooms. The parish dates to 1838, during the Erie Canal boom that made Brockport a shipping and commercial center. The property was listed for its architecture. It illustrates ideas from the ecclesiology movement, which promoted medieval-inspired church design, and it records the growth of a village congregation over several decades while keeping a high degree of integrity.","period_of_significance":"1854-1884, 1903","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Gothic Revival; Richardsonian Romanesque","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a church and parish hall; the form describes the church as virtually intact from its period of construction and 1880s expansion.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:44.722628-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/90000686.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000686/1dff7ea483-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000686/1dff7ea483-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"LtPowers","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brockport_-_St_Lukes_Episcopal_Church.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">LtPowers</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:Brockport_-_St_Lukes_Episcopal_Church.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100006145","name":"Brockport West Side Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/brockport-west-side-historic-district-100006145/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318948","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Luke%27s_Episcopal_Church_(Brockport,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7589776"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/monroe-county/st-lukes-episcopal-church-90000686/"}