{"nrhp_refnum":"96000363","name":"Trinity Episcopal Church","other_names":["Trinity Parish","Trinity Church"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"102 Walker St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lenox","county":"Berkshire County","state":"MA","lat":42.35474533650006,"lon":-73.28187523920442,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-04-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Religion","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A late nineteenth-century Episcopal church complex at 102 Walker Street in Lenox, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, on a 1.4-acre triangular lot. It includes the church (begun 1888), a rectory (1892), a parish house (1896), a directional monument and a non-contributing garage.","why_significant":"The complex displays late nineteenth-century Romanesque ecclesiastical architecture influenced by H.H. Richardson's Trinity Church in Boston. It reflects the wealth and taste of Lenox's summer cottage residents. It is significant at the local level under Criteria A and C, with the religious-property exception, and retains its integrity.","narrative":"Trinity Episcopal Church in Lenox, Massachusetts, is a group of three connected buildings on a triangular 1.4-acre lot at Walker and Kemble Streets, begun in 1888. The church is built of rusticated blue limestone with a dark red slate roof, a separate four-story bell tower, round-arched windows and a Tiffany rose window in the main gable. A rectory of 1892 combines Romanesque stonework with Shingle and Queen Anne details like those of nearby summer cottages. A parish house of 1896, designed to resemble a Norman church, has a half-round porch of paired pink granite columns. Inside, the church holds carved oak furnishings, a rood screen added in 1927, a gold-leaf reredos from 1936 and eighteen memorial stained glass windows. The complex is significant for its Romanesque design, shaped by H.H. Richardson's Trinity Church in Boston, and for its link to the wealthy seasonal residents of Lenox. It was in continuous church use from 1888 to 1946 and retains its original setting and character.","period_of_significance":"1888-1946","architect_builder":"Richard Tylden Auchmuty; McKim, Mead & White (Charles Follen McKim)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Romanesque","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The property remains in use as a religious facility, church school and church-related residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:03.973634-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/28/7943/63794328/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/96000363.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000363/2fb2de25f8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000363/2fb2de25f8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trinity_Episcopal_Church,_Lenox_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</a>, <a href=\"https://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:Trinity_Episcopal_Church,_Lenox_MA.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100006987","name":"Lenox Village Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/massachusetts/lenox-village-historic-district-100006987/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63794328","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_Episcopal_Church_(Lenox,_Massachusetts)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7842755"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/berkshire-county/trinity-episcopal-church-96000363/"}