Zion Memorial Chapel (New Hamburg, New York)

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Zion Memorial Chapel
Gothic Revival
General contractorWilliam O'Rourke
Groundbreaking1902
Direction of façadeeast
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Added to NRHP1987
NRHP Reference no.87000119
Website
St. Nicholas-on-the-Hudson[permanent dead link]

Zion Memorial Chapel, now known as St. Nicholas-on-the-Hudson, is an historic

Episcopal church building located at 37 Point Street in New Hamburg, New York, United States. It was built in 1902 as a chapel of nearby Zion Church in Wappingers Falls and became a separate parish in 1983.[1]

The small wooden church building overlooks the nearby

Gothic Revival architectural style.[2] For that reason it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
in 1987.

Building

The church is a one-story

decorated with scroll-sawn rafter ends and brackets. The front entranceway also has decorative bracework.[2]

On either side there is, in the middle of the cross-gable, a group of three narrow Gothic-arched windows. They are filled with translucent

rosette pattern.[2]

The church's interior has not been altered since its construction. It is finished entirely in plaster, with two four-globed gasoliers hanging from the ceiling. Two sets of unpainted wooden pews are divided by a center aisle. An all-purpose room in the basement serves as the vicar's office and storage space.[2]

History

When the Zion Episcopal Church of

assassination in 1901, contributions to the building fund rose and it was decided to add "Memorial" to the chapel's name.[2]

No significant alterations have been made to the building since it opened in 1902. It was maintained jointly by laypeople and clergy until 1983, when it became its own parish. As of 2008 its congregation has about 40–50 members. It is the only institutional building in New Hamburg still used for its original purpose.[1]

Aesthetics

The Gothic Revival

Romanesque Revival became the preferred. Satterlee's design therefore represents the final stage of its evolution, begun with the ideas of the American Ecclesiological Movement in the 1840s.[2]

Its most prominent Gothic Revival features are the cross-gabled roof,

Shingle styles respectively. The textural contrast of the brick, wood and slate exterior surfaces and the flaring rakeboards presage touches that became more common in the 20th century.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b "about us". St. Nicholas-on-the-Hudson. Retrieved 2011-07-02.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Larson, Neil. "National Register of Historic Places nomination, Zion Memorial Chapel". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2008-10-17.
  3. ^ Columbia University Roll of Honor: Edward Lansing Satterlee

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