National Register of Historic Places
State Street Methodist Episcopal Church
Fulton vicinity, Oswego County, New York
The record
- Listed
- February 20, 2013
- Type
- Building
- Address
- 357 State St., Fulton vicinity
- County
- Oswego
- State
- New York
- Contributing resources
- 2 buildings
- Coordinates
- 43.32078, -76.40923
- Reference number
- 13000030
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The story
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State Street Methodist Episcopal Church is a church building at 357 State St. near Fulton, in Oswego County, listed in the National Register in 2013. John H. Seeber designed it in 1894 in the Romanesque Revival style.
Why it's listed
It was listed under criteria A and C, with local significance in architecture and social history. Its period of significance runs from 1894 to 1962, reflecting the 1894 construction and a 1962 wing added for social and educational use.
Physical character
The church is built of red brick with red stone trim on a stone foundation, under a slate roof, with asymmetrical, pyramid-roofed towers and belt courses, and round arches over the entryways below semi-circular arched windows and circular stained glass windows. Inside, the sanctuary has tripartite stained glass windows, a wooden beamed ceiling and wooden pews, sloped flooring and semi-circular seating around a rotunda in the Akron Plan, and a sliding door partition separating a choir room and classroom.
Historical context
Area Methodists organized into one church in 1893 and held their first service in a chapel in 1894; the congregation built a parsonage in 1901. The church served as a hospital during the 1918 influenza epidemic and was renamed United Methodist Church in 1968.