{"nrhp_refnum":"91000892","name":"St. John's Episcopal Church","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Jct. of State and Stanley Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Mount Morris","county":"Livingston County","state":"NY","lat":42.724555717000044,"lon":-77.87649144599999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-07-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A church complex at State and Stanley Streets in the village of Mount Morris, Livingston County, New York, made up of an 1857 Gothic Revival brick church, a frame Carpenter Gothic parsonage, and a family gravesite.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the church is a distinguished regional example of mid-nineteenth century Gothic Revival architecture shaped by ecclesiology movement ideas. The parsonage is a representative Carpenter Gothic residence based on pattern-book plans, and the Murray gravesite is included for the family's role as benefactors. Together they remain largely intact and are local landmarks of the village's nineteenth-century development.","narrative":"This church complex in the village of Mount Morris, Livingston County, includes a brick Gothic Revival church built in 1857, a frame parsonage, and the graves of the church's principal benefactors, John Rodgers Murray and Anna Vernon Olyphant Murray. The church, designed by W. Hamlin and built by W. Hinman, has a nave and chancel plan, buttressed walls, a steep patterned slate roof, stained glass windows, and an engaged corner bell tower with a spire. Its design reflects ecclesiology movement ideas promoted in America by architects such as Richard Upjohn. The parsonage is a one-and-one-half-story Carpenter Gothic house with scroll-sawn vergeboards, built from plans in a pattern book by Cleveland and the Backus brothers. The complex was listed for its architecture. The church remains largely intact, and together the buildings and gravesite document the village's nineteenth-century growth and the Murray family's support of the parish.","period_of_significance":"1857, 1867, 1878, 1881","architect_builder":"W. Hamlin, Architect; W. Hinman, Builder","architectural_style":"Gothic Revival; Carpenter Gothic","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Church and multipurpose uses continue; the church is described as virtually intact, and the parsonage has modern siding and a fire escape.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:46.029861-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/91000892.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91000892/f1e9c9cfe6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91000892/f1e9c9cfe6-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Pubdog (talk)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Johns_Episcopal_Church_Mount_Morris_NY_Oct_09.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Pubdog (talk)</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Johns_Episcopal_Church_Mount_Morris_NY_Oct_09.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318688","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John%27s_Episcopal_Church_(Mount_Morris,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7588700"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/livingston-county/st-johns-episcopal-church-91000892/"}