{"nrhp_refnum":"96000960","name":"St. Paul's Church","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"210 Washington St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Brownville","county":"Jefferson County","state":"NY","lat":44.005074413000045,"lon":-75.98113929699997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-08-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Religion","Exploration/Settlement"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"St. Paul's Church is a two-story, timber-framed Federal-style church faced in native limestone and stucco, at 210 Washington Street in the Village of Brownville, Jefferson County, New York. It was built in 1820 as a union church and acquired by the Episcopal parish in 1826.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the church is a representative Federal ecclesiastical building that was adapted over time for Episcopal worship, notably in a 1906 interior remodeling. It is also tied to the Episcopal Church's advance into the central New York frontier in the early nineteenth century. It is described as the oldest church building in Jefferson County.","narrative":"St. Paul's Church, at 210 Washington Street in Brownville, is a two-story timber-framed building clad in native limestone and stucco. It was erected in 1820 by local Presbyterians and Episcopalians as a union church and was bought by the Episcopalians after 1824. A parish was legally formed in 1826. The exterior follows the form, massing and scale of Federal church architecture, with a pedimented central pavilion, paired entries and a four-stage wooden steeple. It has no Gothic exterior detail. Gothic features appear inside, where a 1906 remodeling moved the altar to the east end, created a recessed chancel effect, enclosed the balconies and added a barrel vault over the original cove ceiling. It is described as the oldest church building in Jefferson County and the county's oldest worship space used by Episcopalians. It records both early church construction in central New York and later adaptation to Episcopal worship, and it is still in religious use.","period_of_significance":"1820 - 1906","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still used as a religious facility; the parish house was added in 1963 and aluminum siding was applied to the tower and parapet around 1990.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:51.075236-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/96000960.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313266","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Paul%27s_Church_(Brownville,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7591050"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/jefferson-county/st-pauls-church-96000960/"}