{"nrhp_refnum":"93000442","name":"St. John's Episcopal Church","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"670 Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Phoenix","county":"Oswego County","state":"NY","lat":43.231482250000056,"lon":-76.30081159299993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-05-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small Gothic Revival frame church at 670 Main Street in the village of Phoenix, Oswego County, New York, completed around 1911 and attributed to the Rev. Arthur B. Rudd.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is an intact, representative early twentieth-century religious building in Phoenix, designed in a simple Gothic Revival idiom. It combines stucco and cedar shingle cladding over a concrete basement, and keeps a largely intact interior with fine mahogany carving. It is the village's only Episcopal church and its only Gothic-style church, and one of two surviving historic churches there.","narrative":"Built around 1911 at the corner of Main and Volney streets in Phoenix, St. John's Episcopal Church is a small frame building in a simple Gothic Revival style. It has a concrete basement, a main floor finished half in stucco and half in cedar shingles, red-painted trim, pointed-arched windows with diamond-patterned stained glass, and a small open belfry. Inside, a vaulted wooden ceiling, carved rails and pulpit, and a mahogany altar with an elaborate reredos survive. The design is attributed to the Rev. Arthur B. Rudd, an Elmira rector without formal architectural training who may have drawn on the work of architect Otis Dockstader and is credited with the carving. The church served Phoenix's only Episcopal parish from 1911 until the parish was dissolved in 1980. The Schroeppel Historical Society now uses it as a museum. It is one of two surviving historic churches in the village and the only Gothic-style one, and it has had no structural or exterior alterations.","period_of_significance":"c1911","architect_builder":"The Rev. Arthur B. Rudd (attributed designer); Otis Dockstader of Elmira possibly influenced the design","architectural_style":"Late Gothic Revival","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"No longer an active congregation; since 1980 it has been used as a museum and meeting space by the Schroeppel Historical Society, with most church features retained.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:51.520879-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/93000442.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000442/50ad20faa5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000442/50ad20faa5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jpeelman","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Johns_Episcopal_5.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jpeelman</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._Johns_Episcopal_5.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320883","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John%27s_Episcopal_Church_(Phoenix,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7588703"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/oswego-county/st-johns-episcopal-church-93000442/"}