Guilderland
Historical
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- Guilderland properties listed in the
National Register of Historic Places - Hamilton Union
Presbyterian Church
The Hamilton Union Presbyterian Church front elevation
viewed from the southeast (August 2025).
Photos of the Hamilton Union Presbyterian Church in the 1982 NRHP
nomination document (1, 4 marked August 1980; 2, 3 May 1980)
click on an image to obtain full size view
1. Hamilton Union Presbyterian Church viewed from
south 4. non-contributing addition
2. detail of open
belfry
3. detail of carved detailing
Text information from NRHP nomination of 1982
Hamilton Union Presbyterian Church entered on the NRHP 10 November
1982
Application file # 5; National Register Guilderland Multiple
Resource Area # 19.
The church is set back from Western Avenue and is located in a
residential area.
Features: The Stick style church has a large open bell tower
on the south side. The building has an unusual structural design
that incorporates buttresses to compensate for the lack of roof
trusses.The interior retains the original pews and red pine
woodwork. Educational annex added in 1963 (not historic).
Date of initial construction: 1886; architect: August Howe;
built by Howard P. Foster & Martin Talmadge.
Historical and Architectural importance: The church was
constructed in 1886 and designed by New York City architect August
Howe. The church has been supported since 1797 by the hamlet of
Hamiltonville and is the third church building on this site. The
church is unusual in its departure from standard ecclesiastical
design. The main entrance is located on the side of the nave beneath
a Stick style tower with a belfry. A bracketed cornice surrounds the
building and tower. Simple buttresses punctuate the side walls. The
handsome stained-glass windows were crafted by Charles P. Davis of
Utica, NY. The exterior of the original structure is in excellent
condition and is substantially intact. The church is historically
and architecturally significant as the social and visual focus of
Hamiltonville.
Hamilton
Union Presbyterian Church NRHP nomination document (11MB pdf)
map location from NRHP document (#5 Hamilton Union
Presbyterian Church) site map with building location
from 1979 tax map
Google Earth kml
file
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