{"nrhp_refnum":"99000809","name":"Old School Baptist Church of Halcottsville","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Old NY 30","address_restricted":false,"city":"Halcottsville","county":"Delaware County","state":"NY","lat":42.20700873000004,"lon":-74.60086389399999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-07-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story wood-frame Greek Revival inspired meeting house on Old Route 30 in the hamlet of Halcottsville, Town of Middletown, Delaware County, New York, built in 1886 with an outhouse and shed behind it.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the church is an intact and representative example of traditional frame meeting house architecture in Delaware County. It is a builder's adaptation of the Greek Revival style, noted for its rigorous simplicity and nearly unaltered exterior and interior. It is also a local landmark tied to Elder Isaac Hewitt and the Old School Baptist congregations.","narrative":"Halcottsville's Old School Baptist Church is a small wood-frame meeting house on the east side of Old Route 30 in Delaware County, New York. Built in 1886, it has a gable roof, clapboard siding, a molded cornice, six-over-six windows with louvered shutters, and a central entry with paired doors under a plaque reading \"O.S. Baptist Meeting House Built 1886.\" Inside, a vestibule stair leads to a rear gallery, and the sanctuary keeps its pews, raised pulpit platform, plaster walls, stenciled decoration and stoves. A frame outhouse and shed stand behind it. Elder Isaac Hewitt built the church with his own funds as a branch of the Second O.S. Baptist Church of Roxbury, partly for winter convenience and partly because of a theological disagreement with that church's pastor. The congregations later reunited and shared services seasonally. The church was listed for its architecture as a largely unaltered, simple Greek Revival meeting house and as a local landmark.","period_of_significance":"1886","architect_builder":"Elder Isaac Hewitt (built with his own funds)","architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century/Greek Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still owned by the O.S. Baptist Church and used for annual meetings; the interior and exterior are described as virtually intact.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:50.06536-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/99000809.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000809/f8c134bf5c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000809/f8c134bf5c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Lalmeister","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_York_-_Old_School_Baptist_Church_of_Halcottsville_-_20171001133540.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Lalmeister</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_York_-_Old_School_Baptist_Church_of_Halcottsville_-_20171001133540.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75317251","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_School_Baptist_Church_of_Halcottsville","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7084918"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/delaware-county/old-school-baptist-church-of-halcottsville-99000809/"}