Zion Episcopal Church and Rectory (Colton, New York)

Zion Episcopal Church and Rectory is a historic Episcopal church complex located at Colton in St. Lawrence County, New York. The church was built in 1883 of red Potsdam Sandstone. It is a gable front building, approximately 48 feet (15 m) wide and 80 feet (24 m) deep and features an 85-foot-tall (26 m), 14 1⁄2-foot-square (4.4 m) tower. The rectory was built about 1900 and is a two-story, clapboard-sided Italianate building on a sandstone foundation. It is now used as the Colton Town Museum. Also on the property is a cast-iron urn a cast-iron lamppost dating to the 1880s.[2]

Zion Episcopal Church and Rectory
Location91 and 95 Main St., Colton, New York
Coordinates44°33′13″N 74°56′22″W
Arealess than one acre
Built1883
ArchitectJohnson, James P.
Architectural styleGothic
MPSRed Potsdam Sandstone Resources Taken from Raquette River Quarries MPS
NRHP reference No.03000029[1]
Added to NRHPJune 6, 2003

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.[1]

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. Susan Omohundro; Ellen Burns & Linda Garofalini (January 2002). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Zion Episcopal Church and Rectory". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2009-12-10. See also: "Accompanying 16 photos".


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