St. William's Catholic Church (Long Lake, New York)
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St. William's Catholic Church is a historic Roman Catholic church on Long Point on Raquette Lake
in Long Lake
, Hamilton County, New York
. It was designed by prominent New York architect J. Cleaveland Cady
's firm at the height of Shingle Style architecture
fashion. It was built in 1890 and is a rectangular shaped, one story Shingle Style church with a steeply pitched roof. The main facade features a two story cylindrical tower capped by a conical roof and flanked by a pair of open porches.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places
in 2005.
Raquette Lake
Raquette Lake is the source of the Raquette River in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State, USA. It is near the community of Raquette Lake, New York. The lake has 99 miles of shoreline with pines and mountains bordering the lake. It is located in the towns of Long Lake and Arietta,...
in Long Lake
Long Lake, New York
Long Lake is a town in Hamilton County, New York in the United States. The population was 852 at the 2000 census. The town is named for long Long Lake beside which it sits. The town is entirely within the Adirondack Park and is the most northerly town in the county. It is a summer tourism...
, Hamilton County, New York
Hamilton County, New York
Hamilton County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. It is named after Alexander Hamilton, the only member of the New York State delegation who signed the United States Constitution in 1787 and later the first United States Secretary of the Treasury. Its county seat is Lake Pleasant...
. It was designed by prominent New York architect J. Cleaveland Cady
J. Cleaveland Cady
J Cleaveland Cady was a New York-based architect whose most familiar surviving building is the south range of the American Museum of Natural History on New York's Upper West Side...
's firm at the height of Shingle Style architecture
Shingle Style architecture
The Shingle style is an American architectural style made popular by the rise of the New England school of architecture, which eschewed the highly ornamented patterns of the Eastlake style in Queen Anne architecture....
fashion. It was built in 1890 and is a rectangular shaped, one story Shingle Style church with a steeply pitched roof. The main facade features a two story cylindrical tower capped by a conical roof and flanked by a pair of open porches.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
in 2005.