Clarkson Chapel

Clarkson Chapel
Clarkson Chapel
South elevation and east profile, 2008
Location: Clermont, NY
Nearest city: Hudson
Coordinates: 42°05′37″N 73°53′46″W / 42.09361°N 73.89611°W / 42.09361; -73.89611Coordinates: 42°05′37″N 73°53′46″W / 42.09361°N 73.89611°W / 42.09361; -73.89611
Area: 1.1 acres (4,500 m2)[1]
Built: 1860[1]
Architect: Levinus Clarkson, Mary Livingston
Architectural style: Carpenter Gothic
Governing body: Columbia County
MPS: Clermont MRA
NRHP Reference#: 8300392
Added to NRHP: 1983

Clarkson Chapel is located on NY 9G in Clermont, New York, United States, just across from the Coons House. It is a mid-19th century wooden building in the Carpenter Gothic style.

It was built in 1860 by Levinus Clarkson, a local landowner who had married into the Livingston family, for a group of dissident Episcopalians that included himself. At the time it was on the grounds of his estate, Knollwood.

In 1983 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Nine years later, when the Hudson River Historic District was created and designated a National Historic Landmark, it also became a contributing property to that district.

It has since passed from the Livingston descendants to Columbia County.[2]

Building

The chapel is located on a 1.1-acre (4,500 m2) lot on the west side of Route 9G, roughly 0.7 mile (1 km) south of the Stone Jug at the Jug Road intersection. It is screened from the road by a row of trees. A driveway comes up to it from the southeast. The Coons House, also listed on the Register, is across the road, displaced slightly to the north.[1]

It is a one-story frame structure with a steeply pitched gable roof and board-and-batten siding. Projecting hoods with scrolled brackets shield the windows and main entrance, a paneled double door with transom light. Pinnacles and pendants are at both gable ends, with a louvered vent beneath them. The bellcote is separate from the rest of the building, to the southeast.[1]

Inside, the chapel has a center aisle between painted wooden pews. The furnishings include hanging lanterns and a cast iron wood-burning stove. A pump organ is also inside.[1]

History

In 1854 Levinus Clarkson, who had married Edward Philip Livingston's daughter Mary, left St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Tivoli, to the south of Clermont, where he had been a vestryman. Along with some other congregants, they had been alienated by a dispute. Six years later he built the chapel for the dissidents, on part of his Knollwood estate.[1]

It was a personal application of the popular Carpenter Gothic style in a Picturesque setting. The chapel is still Episcopalian in its form and materials, and particularly the detached bellcote. Its decorative hoods distinguish from Richard Upjohn's similarly Gothic St. Luke's on US 9 elsewhere in Clermont.[1]

The Livingston family retained it until the late 20th century, using it for special events. Later in the century it became the property of Columbia County, when developers defaulted on their taxes for a nearby horse farm. In 2001 the environmental group Scenic Hudson obtained an easement for a trail that would connect the site to the horse farm at Clermont State Historic Site to the east.[2]

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