Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1972. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
From the record
“Luke's Episcopal Church is a historic church building on United States Route 7 in Lanesborough, Massachusetts. It is an early example of a stone Gothic Revival church, and only one of two surviving 19th century Gothic Revival church buildings in Berkshire County.”
Wikipedia article St. Luke's Episcopal Church (Lanesborough, Massachusetts), CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 94 National Register listings in Berkshire County · listed in 1972 · category: Building · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Berkshire County.
National Register reference number.72000127- 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.
Fires near this property
12 since 2008
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 12 fires within 5 miles of St. Luke's Episcopal Church between
2008 and 2018, burning about 135 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
Debris and open burning
6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
Recreation and ceremony
2
Equipment and vehicle use
1
Natural
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 1,342 specimens
collected within 10 miles of St. Luke's Episcopal Church between 1828 and
1975: 580 Plantae, 531 Animalia, 214 Fungi, 9 Protozoa, 7 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A K Harrison, A Schwartz, A. Cowee and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
9 workings within 5 miles of St. Luke's Episcopal Church: 6 past producers, 3 producers.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Lanesborough, the town this property stands in, in 31 storm reports between 2000 and 2026: 28 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 hail.
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.
Numerous trees and wires were reported down in and near Lanesborough due to strong thunderstorm winds. Downed trees were reported on Kelly Lane, and also resulted in the closure of a portion of Route 8.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
From the nomination file
2,472 words on record
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
Statement of significance
St. Luke's Church, built in 1836, is among New England's few Gothic Revival churches which pre-date the Anglo-American "Ecclesiological Movement." It is not to be classified with the "castellated" style churches, such as the former Trinity Church, Boston, but with the equally rare Adamesque Gothic churches such as the Episcopal Cathedral at Providence, Rhode Island, in which details derived from the Adamesque style continue to appear. The buil- ding is also of special interest to New England because of its stone construc- tion. - The building is unusual architecturally because it is part of a fairly isolated religious movement: the early growth of the Episcopal Church north- ward from New Haven into western Connecticut and western Massachusetts in the late eighteenth century.
In this special region of Episcopalianism, a num- ber of Gothic Revival churches were built very early in the nineteenth cen- Trinity, New Haven (1815); Christ Church, Quaker's Farm, Connecticut (1813); Trinity Church, Milton, Connecticut (1802-1826); and a very few others. The records of the St' Luke's parish go back to 1767, making Lanesborough bhe eleventh oldest Episcopal parish in Massachusetts and only the second eighteenth century Episcopal parish in Massachusetts west-of the seacoast.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 72000127, 11 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
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.
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.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
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.
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