Guilderland
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- Guilderland properties listed in the
National Register of Historic Places - St Marks Lutheran
Church
St Marks Lutheran Church front elevation viewed from the
southeast (August 2025).
Photos of St Marks Lutheran Church in the 1982 NRHP nomination
document (2, 3 marked July 1980)
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1. St Marks Lutheran Church viewed from
southeast 2. detail of steeple
3. detail of cornice
Text information from NRHP nomination of 1982
St Marks Lutheran Church entered on the NRHP 10 November 1982
Application file # 11; National Register Guilderland Multiple
Resource Area # 21.
Set back from the road in the Village of Guilderland Center.
Features: The church's design is a vernacular interpretation
of an Italianate design with curved arched windows and bracketed
cornice; square bell tower with pedimented cornice and steeple rises
above. Interior is intact except for the altar which has been
removed.
Date of initial construction: 1872
Historical and Architectural importance: The St. Mark's
Community Center* was constructed as a Lutheran church when the
congregation at Osborne Corners divided and came to Guilderland
Center to worship. The nineteenth-century church, with side aisles
flanking the engaged front tower with polygonal spire, represents a
simplified version of ecclesiastical design popular in America from
the eighteenth century. Both the interior and exterior of the
building display considerable integrity. The building is a
significant example of quality craftmanship and vernacular
interpretation of high style church design. The building survives in
an area of growing suburban development.
*In 2025 it is the Centerpointe community church.
St
Marks Lutheran Church NRHP nomination document (10MB pdf)
map location from NRHP document (#11 St Marks Lutheran
Church) site map with building location from 1979 tax
map
Google Earth kml file
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