{"nrhp_refnum":"92001052","name":"St. Bridget's Roman Catholic Church Complex","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"15 Church St., between Church and Michigan Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bloomfield","county":"Ontario County","state":"NY","lat":42.900548300000025,"lon":-77.43234995499995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-08-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","European","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Catholic church complex at 15 Church Street and Michigan Street in the village of Bloomfield, Ontario County, New York, made up of a brick church (1874-75), a rectory (1897), a carriage barn (1904), a cemetery (1866-1942) and a non-contributing 1964 parish hall.","why_significant":"The complex is significant under Criterion C as an intact group of late nineteenth and early twentieth century religious, domestic and funerary design. The church is a late Victorian eclectic building in the Italianate/Romanesque Revival taste, and the rectory is a Colonial Revival house. Under Criterion A it is tied to the working-class Irish Catholic community that settled in East Bloomfield in the early 1840s.","narrative":"St. Bridget's is a Catholic church complex on Church Street in Bloomfield, New York, covering about eight acres. Its centerpiece is a brick church built in 1874-75, designed in a restrained Italianate and Romanesque Revival manner with a slate gable roof, bracketed eaves, round-arched stained-glass windows and a wooden bell tower. Nearby are a Colonial Revival rectory built in 1897 by the Neenan Brothers, a 1904 carriage barn, and a six-acre cemetery begun in 1866 that holds several hundred markers. A 1964 parish hall does not contribute to the property's significance. The complex was listed for its architecture and for its link to the area's Irish Catholic community. Families arrived in the early 1840s to work on the Canandaigua and Niagara Falls Railroad, the parish was organized in 1850, and a frame church followed in 1852. The present church replaced it as the congregation grew, and the complex remains a local landmark.","period_of_significance":"1866 - 1942","architect_builder":"Rectory: Neenan Brothers; church: unknown, remodeled by the Neenan Brothers","architectural_style":"Late Victorian; Italianate (church with Romanesque Revival features); Colonial Revival (rectory)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The church, cemetery and related buildings are listed as in continued religious use. The cemetery has been in continuous use since 1866. The rectory has recently been sheathed in vinyl siding.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.3112-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/92001052.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001052/74a394ed19-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001052/74a394ed19-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"DanielPenfield","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StBridgetsRomanCatholicChurch2020FromSoutheast.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">DanielPenfield</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:StBridgetsRomanCatholicChurch2020FromSoutheast.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320546","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Bridget%27s_Roman_Catholic_Church_Complex_(Bloomfield,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7587368"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/ontario-county/st-bridgets-roman-catholic-church-complex-92001052/"}