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Oakwood Avenue Presbyterian Church

historic church in New York, United States

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ23091972 ↗
Source-derived summary

Oakwood Avenue Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located at Troy, Rensselaer County, New York. It was built in 1868, and is a two-story, three bay by five bay, rectangular frame building. It has a gable roof topped by belfry. An education wing was added in 1957.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

Editorial summary

“Oakwood Avenue Presbyterian Church” enters the record as historic church in New York, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Oakwood, Avenue and Presbyterian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1868, 1957, 2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Oakwood, Avenue and Presbyterian.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Oakwood Avenue Presbyterian Church” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Oakwood, Avenue and Presbyterian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q23091972. Authority coordinates are 42.740, -73.680. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1868, 1957 and 2012.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Oakwood Avenue Presbyterian Church”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Oakwood Avenue Presbyterian Church primary sources, Oakwood Avenue Presbyterian Church archive and Oakwood research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Oakwood Avenue Presbyterian Church”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Oakwood Avenue Presbyterian Church” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.