Grace Methodist Church Complex

Grace Methodist Church Complex
The parsonage (left) and the church pictured in 2025.
Grace Methodist Church Complex is located in New York
Grace Methodist Church Complex
Location within New York
Grace Methodist Church Complex is located in the United States
Grace Methodist Church Complex
Location within the United States
Location2895 NY 8, Speculator, New York
Coordinates43°30′02″N 74°22′04″W / 43.50056°N 74.36778°W / 43.50056; -74.36778
Area0.82 acres (0.33 ha)
Builtc. 1908 (1908)-1909, 1928
Built byBlowers, Cyrus
ArchitectBenjamin D. Price
Architectural styleGothic, Colonial Revival
NRHP reference No.15000006[1]
Added to NRHPFebruary 12, 2015

The Grace Methodist Church Complex, also known as Mountain Community Methodist Church, is a historic Methodist church complex located at Speculator, Hamilton County, New York. The church was built in 1909 and is a compact Gothic Revival style frame church. It has an engaged bell tower and a concrete block Sunday School wing added in 1957. The front facade features three symmetrically placed Gothic-arched windows. The parsonage was built in 1928, and is a two-story wood-frame building with a gambrel roof and dormers in the Dutch Colonial Revival style.[2]: 3–5 

The church was built to a standard plan design by Benjamin D. Price and is very similar to the 1903 Methodist church in nearby Indian Lake, with an identical steeple and similar layouts. Memorial stained glass windows at Grace Methodist Church set it apart from similarly designed churches.[3]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.[1] Alongside the Methodist church in nearby Lake Pleasant, The church is part of a two-point parish called Mountain Community Methodist Church. The church disaffiliated from the United Methodist Church in 2024 and is part of the Global Methodist Church.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register of Historic Places" (PDF). Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 2/09/15 through 2/13/15. National Park Service. 2015-02-20.
  2. ↑ "Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS)" (Searchable database). New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2015-12-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) Note: This includes William E. Krattinger (August 2014). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Grace Methodist Church Complex" (PDF). Retrieved 2015-12-01. and Accompanying photographs
  3. ↑ Svenson, Sally E. (2006). Adirondack Churches: A History of Design and Building. Keeseville, New York: Adirondack Architectural Heritage. pp. 117–18. ISBN 0967038839.
  4. ↑ "Disaffiliated Churches". United Methodists of Upper New York. Retrieved 14 July 2025.
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