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Childwold Memorial Presbyterian Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1920.

From the record

“Childwold Memorial Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located the hamlet of Childwold in the town of Piercefield, St. Built as part of a summer resort community, the church included several unusual architectural characteristics and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”

Wikipedia article Childwold Memorial Presbyterian Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for St. Lawrence County · listed in 2001 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Bancroft Rd., Piercefield, 12922
  • When was it listed? May 2001
  • Category. building
  • Town. Piercefield town
  • Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
  • National Register reference number. 01000585 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1920 to 1948

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 28 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Childwold Memorial Presbyterian Church, surveyed 1948
Topographic sheet covering Childwold Memorial Presbyterian Church, surveyed 1920

Fires near this property

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Childwold Memorial Presbyterian Church between 2013 and 2020, burning about 7 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
27 July 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersMASSAWEPIE FIRE
10 May 2013Natural6.8 acresNew York Forest RangersSAMPSON POND FIRE
18 October 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersRAQUETTE RIVER FIRE

Every fire recorded in St. Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Childwold Memorial Presbyterian Church: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bliss-Murphy ClaimIronProspect

Every working recorded in St. Lawrence County

Storms near this property

3 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Piercefield, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2005 and 2016: 3 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 2005Thunderstorm WindPiercefield$20,000no account filed
June 2007Thunderstorm WindPiercefield$3,000A tree and several large limbs were blown down on power lines on Gull Pond Rd.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindPiercefield$2,000Several small trees downed by thunderstorm winds on Setting Pond Rd.

Every storm recorded in St. Lawrence County

Maps showing this location

9 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

2 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Arab Mountain Fire Observation Station6.1 miles2001
Arab Mountain Fire Observation Station6.8 miles2001

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 01000585 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Lawrence CountyAll 83 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.