{"nrhp_refnum":"98001392","name":"Olive and Hurley Old School Baptist Church","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NY 28, jct. with NY 30","address_restricted":false,"city":"Shokan","county":"Ulster County","state":"NY","lat":41.97355325600006,"lon":-74.21208992599998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1998-11-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A single-story Greek Revival frame meeting house on NYS Route 28 in the hamlet of Shokan, town of Olive, Ulster County, New York, built in 1857 for an Old School (Primitive) Baptist congregation, with a contemporary outhouse behind it.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the church is an exceptionally intact, representative example of traditional frame meeting house architecture in Ulster County and the Catskill Mountain region, and a rare survivor. Its exterior and its mid-nineteenth-century sanctuary retain a high degree of integrity. It is described as a builder's adaptation of the Greek Revival style, notable for its rigorous simplicity.","narrative":"Built in 1857, this small frame meeting house on Route 28 in Shokan, Ulster County, served the Olive & Hurley Old School Baptist congregation, one of the oldest Primitive Baptist groups in New York State. The single-story building has a hand-hewn post-and-beam frame, a rubble foundation, narrow clapboards, wide corner pilasters, a molded cornice and tall twenty-over-twenty windows with louvered shutters. A louvered bell tower rises from the gable above a tablet recording the 1857 erection date. Inside, a vestibule with a curved stair leads to a nave with simple wooden pews, a raised lectern, plank wainscoting, plaster walls, two original stoves and oil lighting fixtures. The congregation's earlier meeting house had grown too small, and the new church cost $1,640.75. It is considered significant as a remarkably intact example of Greek Revival meeting house design in the Catskill region, adapted by local builders with notable simplicity. A small contemporary outhouse stands behind it.","period_of_significance":"1857","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century / Greek Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Few alterations have been made; the oak floor over the original plank floors was added in the late 1930s. Historic and current function are both religious facility.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:50.078724-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/98001392.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98001392/bc976f1b77-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98001392/bc976f1b77-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Briansnat","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OliveBaptist.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Briansnat</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OliveBaptist.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322693","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_and_Hurley_Old_School_Baptist_Church","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7087228"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/ulster-county/olive-and-hurley-old-school-baptist-church-98001392/"}