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]

The 1900 rectory, now a museum.

Zion Episcopal Church and Rectory
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
The church photographed in 2025.
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Location	91 and 95 Main St., Colton, New York
Coordinates	44°33′13″N 74°56′22″W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1883
Architect	Johnson, James P.
Architectural style	Gothic
MPS	Red Potsdam Sandstone Resources Taken from Raquette River Quarries MPS
NRHP reference No.	03000029[1]
Added to NRHP	June 6, 2003

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