{"nrhp_refnum":"93000861","name":"Reformed Dutch Church, Parsonage and Lecture Hall","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"US 9 N of jct. with Market St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hyde Park","county":"Dutchess County","state":"NY","lat":41.79241121600006,"lon":-73.93734937099998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-09-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A complex of three contributing buildings (a Federal-style church built ca. 1826, a parsonage built 1833, and a lecture hall built before 1858) plus a cemetery begun ca. 1789, on US Route 9 in the village of Hyde Park, Dutchess County, New York.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the church is a representative example of an early nineteenth-century Federal-style religious building, with a restrained, Quaker-like simplicity. The church and parsonage are described as highly intact wood-frame Federal buildings from Hyde Park's post-Revolutionary period. Together with the lecture hall they form a distinctive local historical and architectural resource.","narrative":"On US Route 9 in the village of Hyde Park, a small church complex preserves the look of mid-nineteenth-century religious life. It includes a two-story Federal-style wood-frame church built about 1826 and enlarged by seventeen feet in 1835, a 1833 parsonage, a lecture hall built before 1858 and used for Sunday school and meetings, and a cemetery begun around 1789 with more than one hundred markers. The congregation traces its roots to a religious society organized in 1789 to build a union church. The church keeps its wideboard floors, original windows and doors, paneled mahogany altar, and plain moldings and plaster, giving it a notably simple character compared with other Hudson Valley Federal buildings. The interior was reworked in 1887 when a pipe organ was installed. A 1960 fellowship hall joins church and parsonage but is not counted as historic. The complex was listed for its architectural value as a well-preserved example of Federal design.","period_of_significance":"ca.1826-1858","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal (church and parsonage, the latter described as Late Federal); lecture hall in a vernacular style with Greek Revival detailing","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The church has been in continuous use as a church since its construction; the form lists current functions as religious facility and cemetery.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:50.729207-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/93000861.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000861/2752508d3f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000861/2752508d3f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hyde_Park_Reformed_Dutch_Church.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:Hyde_Park_Reformed_Dutch_Church.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75317450","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyde_Park_Reformed_Dutch_Church","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1640020"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/dutchess-county/reformed-dutch-church-parsonage-and-lecture-hall-93000861/"}