St. Thomas' Episcopal Church

Built in 1851 (Gothic Revival). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1899.

From the record

“Thomas' Episcopal Church is located on Leedsville Road in Amenia Union, New York, United States. It is a mid-19th-century brick church designed by Richard Upjohn in the Gothic Revival architectural style, built for a congregation organized shortly before.”
Wikipedia article St. Thomas Episcopal Church (Amenia Union, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 266 National Register listings published here for Dutchess County · listed in 2005 · category: Building · built in 1851, Gothic Revival, by Richard Upjohn.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. Leedsville Rd., N side, W of NY 41, Amenia Union, 12501
When was it listed? April 2005
Category. building
Town. Amenia town
When was it built? 1851
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
Architect. Richard Upjohn
National Register reference number. 05000261 - 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

1899 to 1993

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering St. Thomas' Episcopal Church, surveyed 1993

Topographic sheet covering St. Thomas' Episcopal Church, surveyed 1899

Fires near this property

98 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of St. Thomas' Episcopal Church between 1993 and 2020, burning about 68 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 10 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	49
Debris and open burning	22
Arson/incendiarism	10
Natural	10
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
29 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Connecticut Division of Forestry	not named
26 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Connecticut Division of Forestry	11 WILLIAMS RD
9 August 2015	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Connecticut Division of Forestry	WEST WOODS ROAD #1

Every fire recorded in Dutchess County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of St. Thomas' Episcopal Church: 16 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Iron, Manganese, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Quartzite Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer
General Bush Copper Mine	Copper	Past Producer
General Bush Copper Mine	Copper	Past Producer
Amenia Limonite Mine	Iron, Manganese	Past Producer	1825, 1835
Amenia Mine	Iron, Manganese	Past Producer	1760
Manhattan Mine	Iron, Manganese	Past Producer
Manhattan Sharon Limonite Mine	Iron, Manganese	Past Producer	Limonite
Gridley Limonite Mine	Iron	Past Producer	Limonite, Siderite
Gridley Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Gridley Mine/Amenia/Squabble Hole Mines	Iron	Past Producer	Residual

Every working recorded in Dutchess County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

1899 USGS Millbrook quadrangle1:62500
1902 USGS Millbrook quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Amenia quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1985 USGS Waterbury quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Waterbury quadrangle1:100000

Listed places nearby

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Hendrik Winegar House	0.3 miles	1975
Webutuck Agricultural Valley Historic District	0.9 miles	2024
Lewis Mumford House	1.7 miles	1999
Beth David Synagogue	2.9 miles	2002
Indian Rock Schoolhouse	3.2 miles	2002
Hiddenhurst	4.9 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05000261 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dutchess County	All 266 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.