{"nrhp_refnum":"93000848","name":"Bard Infant School and St. James Chapel","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"East Market St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hyde Park","county":"Dutchess County","state":"NY","lat":41.78842540100004,"lon":-73.93488788699995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-08-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A pair of connected one-story wood frame buildings on East Market Street in Hyde Park, Dutchess County, New York: the Bard Infant School (1832) and St. James Chapel (1856), joined in an L shape, plus a contributing shed.","why_significant":"The nomination argues both buildings are intact, representative examples of their styles and construction methods: Greek Revival for the school and Carpenter Gothic for the chapel. The school is described as Hyde Park's earliest surviving school. Both are also tied to prominent local families, including the Roosevelt, Vanderbilt, Rogers, Bard and Langdon families.","narrative":"On East Market Street in Hyde Park, two small wood buildings are joined at a right angle to form an L. The older is the Bard Infant School, built in 1832 in the Greek Revival style after Susan Mary Bard left $2,000 in trust for an infant school. It has a pedimented gable portico, dentil cornice and a one-room interior with original moldings and a fieldstone fireplace added in 1913. St. James Chapel was attached to its rear in 1856 as an auxiliary chapel for daily worship and winter services, since the main church was hard to heat. It is a restrained Carpenter Gothic building with board and batten siding, an open belfry, scissor trusses and round-arched windows. The architects of both are unknown, though the chapel reflects Richard Upjohn pattern book designs. The school served the community until 1869, then became a Sunday school and library. Both buildings keep a high degree of integrity and are linked to prominent local families.","period_of_significance":"ca.1832 - 1856","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival; Carpenter Gothic","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Both buildings retain religious use as a facility; the school section was later used as a Sunday school, guild room, library and reading room.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:50.057507-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/93000848.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000848/3b153084e7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000848/3b153084e7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bard_Infant_School_and_St_James_Chapel.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</a>, <a href=\"http://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:Bard_Infant_School_and_St_James_Chapel.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75317295","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._James_Chapel_(Hyde_Park,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7588446"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/dutchess-county/bard-infant-school-and-st-james-chapel-93000848/"}