{"nrhp_refnum":"97001455","name":"All Saints Chapel and Morris Family Burial Ground","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NY 51, 3 mi. S of Morris","address_restricted":false,"city":"Morris","county":"Otsego County","state":"NY","lat":42.50953442900007,"lon":-75.28833856365216,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1997-11-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small stone Gothic Revival chapel with two adjoining cemeteries and a wood-frame wagon shed, on about 2.3 acres along New York State Route 51, roughly three miles south of the village of Morris in Otsego County, New York. The chapel was built c1866-1868 to a design by G. Pomeroy Keese.","why_significant":"The property is significant for architecture as an outstanding example of a Gothic Revival rural parish church modeled on English precedents, and for social history through its link to the Morris family and the settlement of the Butternut Valley. The Morris family cemetery holds the grave of General Jacob Morris and the earliest known white burial in the valley. The chapel served the family, its employees and neighbors.","narrative":"Set behind a tall hemlock hedge on former Morris family farmland south of Morris, All Saints Chapel is a small stone church built about 1866-1868 from locally quarried stone. Designed by G. Pomeroy Keese of Cooperstown, it has a slate roof, buttressed sides and a projecting bell-cote tower, and its interior is finished in oiled chestnut with butternut benches. Two cemeteries lie beside it. The Morris family burial ground holds General Jacob Morris, an early settler of the Butternut Valley, and his infant daughter Censa, whose 1791 burial is believed to be the first of a white settler in the valley. A second cemetery, laid out in 1869, served employees, friends and neighbors. The chapel was consecrated in 1869 and deeded to Zion Episcopal Church. It reflects English rural parish church design admired by Victorian architects, and its landscaped, rural setting reinforces that character. A wood-frame wagon shed also contributes.","period_of_significance":"1791-1869","architect_builder":"G. Pomeroy Keese","architectural_style":"Gothic Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Chapel is virtually unaltered since construction and retains outstanding integrity; both cemeteries remain in active use and the chapel is maintained within the Zion Episcopal parish.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:51.485017-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/97001455.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320905","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Saints_Chapel_and_Morris_Family_Burial_Ground","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4729432"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/otsego-county/all-saints-chapel-and-morris-family-burial-ground-97001455/"}