{"nrhp_refnum":"97001204","name":"St. Paul's Church","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"117 Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Owego","county":"Tioga County","state":"NY","lat":42.10263098000007,"lon":-76.26496142099995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1997-10-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Religion","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"St. Paul's Church is a masonry High Victorian Gothic Episcopal church at the northwest corner of Main and Liberty Streets in the Village of Owego, Tioga County, New York. It was built in 1893-94 to designs by architect William Halsey Wood.","why_significant":"It is significant under Criterion C as an intact example of High Victorian Gothic church design and as the work of Newark architect William Halsey Wood, its only known example in New York outside New York City. Under Criterion A it reflects the Diocese of Central New York's building program and the growth of the Owego parish, which replaced an earlier inadequate church. The 1911 parish house shows the church's growing social and educational role.","narrative":"St. Paul's Church, built in 1893-94 at the corner of Main and Liberty Streets in Owego, is a High Victorian Gothic Episcopal church of rough-cut bluestone trimmed with orange brick and terra-cotta. Its plan includes a gabled nave and chancel, a semicircular Lady Chapel, a square tower with a smaller octagonal tower, and an arcaded stone porch. Inside, hammer beams and exposed rafters support the ceiling, and a carved rood screen was added around 1910-11. A parish house was attached in 1911 and enlarged in 1958. The church was designed by William Halsey Wood of Newark, New Jersey, and built by John Cochran. It replaced the parish's first church of 1839-40, which stood across Main Street and had become too small. The building is recognized for its well-preserved polychrome design, as the only known New York work outside New York City by Wood, and for its place in the Episcopal Diocese of Central New York's church-building history.","period_of_significance":"1893-1926","architect_builder":"William Halsey Wood, architect; John Cochran, builder","architectural_style":"Late Victorian / Gothic (High Victorian Gothic)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still in religious use; the form lists religious facility as its current function and reports a very high degree of integrity with minimal alterations.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:51.092395-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/97001204.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97001204/1c1e511843-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97001204/1c1e511843-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr from now in Binghamton, NY","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Pauls_Church_Owego_Feb_09.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Kerr from now in Binghamton, NY</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Pauls_Church_Owego_Feb_09.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315134","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Paul%27s_Church_(Owego,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7591061"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/tioga-county/st-pauls-church-97001204/"}