{"nrhp_refnum":"92000152","name":"Brick Presbyterian Church Complex","other_names":["Downtown United Presbyterian Church"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"121 N. Fitzhugh St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rochester","county":"Monroe County","state":"NY","lat":43.157701614000075,"lon":-77.61657426299996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-03-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-building church complex at 121 North Fitzhugh Street in Rochester, Monroe County, New York, made up of the Brick Church and Church School, the attached Brick Church Institute (1909-10) and Taylor Chapel (1941).","why_significant":"The church and school are a fine example of Romanesque Revival architecture and an early work of Rochester architect Andrew J. Warner, with 1904 modifications by his son J. Foster Warner. The Brick Church Institute is significant for its tie to Progressive Era social reform in Rochester, providing housing and recreation for indigent men. Taylor Chapel is included as the last historic alteration, built in memory of the institute's founding minister.","narrative":"Brick Presbyterian Church Complex occupies a small corner lot at North Fitzhugh and Allen Streets in Rochester, just north of the historic civic center. It combines a Romanesque Revival church and school, a later institute building and a chapel. The church was designed by Andrew J. Warner, then 37, as one of his earliest independent commissions, and it shows round-headed windows, arched corbel tables and two asymmetrical square towers with pyramidal roofs. Inside are a barrel-vaulted plaster ceiling, cast-iron columns, a gallery and stained glass, including windows attributed to the Tiffany studio. Warner's son J. Foster Warner altered the building in 1904. The attached Brick Church Institute of 1909-10, with a Georgian Revival front, offered offices, recreation space and low-cost rooms for inner-city residents, reflecting Progressive Era reform. Taylor Chapel, built in 1941 in memory of the institute's founding minister, completes the complex. The church continues in religious and school use.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Andrew J. Warner (original church and school); J. Foster Warner (1904 modifications)","architectural_style":"Early Romanesque Revival; Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still in use as a church with school and day care functions; the chancel is partly obscured by a 1982 pipe organ, and a c1970 addition covers the original north facade.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.392995-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/92000152.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92000152/ad00f583a3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92000152/ad00f583a3-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brick_Presbyterian_Church_Complex,_Rochester,_Monroe_County.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</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:Brick_Presbyterian_Church_Complex,_Rochester,_Monroe_County.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313648","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brick_Presbyterian_Church_Complex_(Rochester,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4965936"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/monroe-county/brick-presbyterian-church-complex-92000152/"}