<p>St. Pauls Church is a historic Episcopal church located at 204 Genesee Street in Chittenango, Madison County, New York. Its a three-by-four-bay, Gothic Revival–style structure built with board and batten siding. It was built about 1865 and features a forest of tall pinnacles and decorative trim work on the front facade.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Snells Bush Church and Cemetery, also known as St. Paul&#39;s Dutch Reformed Church is a historic Dutch Reformed church located in Manheim, Herkimer County, New York. It was built in 1852, and is a one-story, rectangular, Greek Revival style timber frame church. The front gable roof is topped by a two-stage belfry. Adjacent to the church is the contributing cemetery containing 345 recorded burials. The earliest burial dates to 1804.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Trinity Episcopal Church—Fairfield is a historic Episcopal church located on NY 29  in the hamlet of Fairfield, Herkimer County, New York. It was built in 1808, and is a -story, three bay by four bay, wood-frame church with a gable roof. It features a projecting three-story, flat topped square bell tower, centered on the front facade. The church houses an 1845 George Jardine pipe organ that can still be hand pumped. The bell from the Fairfield Academy was installed in the bell tower in 1962. It is considered the mother church to subsequent Episcopal congregations in Herkimer County.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>Church of the Transfiguration is a historic Episcopal church located at Blue Mountain Lake in Hamilton County, New York. It is a small, one story, gable roofed structure with a central belfry at the west end. The building was built in 1885 and is constructed of barked spruce logs, mitred at the corners, and set upon a high foundation of random fieldstone. The church features Tiffany glass windows and a Meneely bell donated by Mrs. Levi P. Morton wife of future Vice-President under Benjamin Harrison.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by Manley N. Cutter and built by Thomas Wallace. The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>St. William&#39;s Catholic Church is a historic Roman Catholic church on Long Point on Raquette Lake in Raquette Lake, Hamilton County, New York. The building and grounds are no longer part of the Catholic Church/Ogdensburg diocese but are maintained by a nonprofit organization.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>St. Williams was designed by prominent New York architect J. Cleaveland Cadys firm at the height of Shingle Style architecture fashion. It was built by William West Durant in 1890 and is a rectangular, one-story 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.</p><br>
<p>The building and its property is maintained by Saint William’s on Long Point Inc. a non-profit, non-denominational organization, dedicated to preserving the historic church. The group has created a quiet retreat through the rental of housekeeping facilities and providing community events for the surrounding area during the summer months. The property is seasonally available and accessible by boat only.</p><br>
<p>The organization was started in 1993. Throughout the past 26 years, they have accomplished a significant amount of restoration and renovations to the historic church, including, but not limited to, stabilizing the foundation and floor in the church, replacing and staining the exterior cedars, replacing and painting the interior plaster, new lighting, and refinished wood floors. All renovations and preservation have been carefully done within strict guidelines honoring the long history of Saint William’s.</p><br>
<p>This organization is not affiliated with or under the jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ogdensburg or the Conventual Franciscan Friars.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Wells Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church on Main Street in Wells, Hamilton County, New York. It was built in 1845 and is a single-story, three-by-four-bay, post and beam frame building measuring approximately 36 by. It sits on an uncoursed mortared rubble foundation and has a gable roof. The main facade features a tympanum surmounted by a louvered bell tower topped by a pyramidal roof.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The State Tower Building is a high-rise building located in Syracuse, New York. Completed in 1928, the building remains the highest in Syracuse. It has around 23 floors and is around 312 ft tall. For several years after the Bastable Theatre burnt down in a 1923 fire, the plot of land was considered as the potential site of a new theatre or an office building. Eventually the plot&#39;s owners, Central Offices decided to build an office building. Designed by Thompson & Churchill, work began on the foundation of the State Tower Building in 1927. The tower was completed by late April 1928.</p><br>
<p>It initially functioned as an office building, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing property in the Hanover Square Historic District. In 2016 the building was bought by different owners, who redeveloped the top floors into high-end apartments; retaining just the first eight floors as office space.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The State Tower Building is located on a plot where Genesee, Warren, and Water streets intersect. The whole block is occupied by the building, while a larger tower juts up on the Warren Street side. The building is made of steel and concrete with a limestone, terra-cotta and brick facade. The bricks on the facade gradually get lighter towards the top of the building; this was intended to make the building seem higher than it is. The facade was decorated as typical for an Art Deco building.</p><br>
<p>It has 21, 23, or 24 stories, and is 312 ft or tall. The building was designed as a large office building with the first 10 floors being large, and the top floors being setback and smaller such that one entity might occupy an entire floor. On the roof of the tenth floor was a deck on which there was a full-service restaurant.</p><br>
<p>When first constructed, the building had hollow chambers between the outer and inner walls for insulation. It had about floor space, and was designed to provide maximum light. It was connected to a parking garage.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Block</h3><br>
<p>The area where the State Tower Building was constructed was previously occupied by the Bastable block, which had been standing since at least 1852. The block was four stories tall and housed the Shakespeare Hall and arcade. It burnt down on November 20, 1891. Two years later, Frederick Bastable built the Bastable Theatre in its place. Sam S. Shubert managed the theatre to profitability in 1897, booking a variety of sensational shows and comedies. The Bastable block was virtually razed in a 1923 fire; the theatre itself was completely destroyed.</p><br>
<h3>Construction</h3><br>
<p>In the aftermath of the fire, Stephen Bastable, who owned the block, resolved to replace the Bastable Theatre with an office building. In July 1923 he announced that the block would be filled by a "modern office building". The plot was purchased by Central Offices, led by Albert Mayer and Charles Mayer, who resolved to build an office building on the site. They considered building a larger theatre with an office tower on top of it, and an informal agreement was reportedly reached for leasing of the theatre. However, the plan soon developed further and it became clear that both a theatre and office building could not be built on the site. Plans for a new theatre were dropped. The architect was Thompson & Churchill.</p><br>
<p>The foundation began to be dug in 1927. It was largely below street level, but to the north reached down. This was the deepest foundation ever sunk in Downtown Syracuse, below the level of Onondaga Lake, and pumps were necessary to remove water that was seeping in. 300 people were involved in digging, in two 150 person shifts. On June 10, the Syracuse Herald reported that the foundation was set to be completed by July 1. The tower was completed by April 29, 1928, and scheduled to be formally opened two days later. On the 29th, an article in the Syracuse Herald wrote that the tower marked the beginning of a "new era in progress of city". Before opening, 80 percent of the building was leased to commercial tenants.</p><br>
<h3>Later history</h3><br>
<p>The building&#39;s exterior was lit at night from its opening to the 1960s.</p><br>
<p>It was renovated in 2003.</p><br>
<p>The State Tower Building was the site of regular peregrine falcon nesting, and the top floor holds a nesting box. In 2015, live cameras that offered views of the nesting box were installed. After 2019 renovations to the building, the box was moved and as of 2021 had not been used in "a couple of years", according to the local office of the Department of Environmental Conservation.</p><br>
<p>In 2014, some concerns were raised over possible hazards with the facade of the building. Two years later, a developer purchased the building for $5.4 million. As over half of the building was unoccupied, the developers kept only the first 7 floors of the building as office space and from 2016 to 2018 redeveloped the upper floors into 61 high-end apartments. In addition to redeveloping the apartments, all windows, the roof, and substantial portions of the facade were replaced. A second stairwell was added to the top floors.</p><br>
<p>The building is the site of "The Climb", a program that raises funds to aid children with cancer in Central New York. During the fundraiser, participants climb the 338 steps in the State Tower.</p><br>
<h2>Reception</h2><br>
<p>Evamaria Hardin describes the building as "seem to be Syracuses counterpart to New Yorks Empire State Building". Upon its completion in 1928, the Syracuse Herald deemed the building "a massive yet graceful combination of colored brick, concrete, tile and hidden steel framework" and wrote that it was Syracuse&#39;s first "skyscraper".</p><br>
<p>The building is Syracuse&#39;s tallest, and has been since its completion.</p><br>
<p>The John Tigard House is a home built in 1880 located in Tigard, Oregon. The home was originally owned by John Tigard, the son of Tigard founder Wilson Tigard. Queen Anne in style, the structure was moved from its original location along Oregon Route 99W in 1978. Now a museum, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1852, Wilson Tigard arrived over the Oregon Trail and settled in the southeast part of Washington County, Oregon, where he became the namesake to what was originally called Tigardville, and later shortened to Tigard. Tigard&#39;s oldest son John built a house in 1880 on a plot of land that is now at the intersection of Gaarde Street and Oregon Route 99W in Tigard. After a time the structure began to deteriorate and became run down by the 1970s.</p><br>
<p>In the 1970s a group of residents formed the Tigard Historical Association to prevent the house from being torn down.</p><br>
<h2>Details</h2><br>
<p>The -story wood building is in the Queen Anne style of architecture with some Carpenter Gothic elements. The half story is an attic, which is used for storing artifacts of the historical society.</p><br>
<p>All Souls Church is an historic Episcopal church located at Tannersville in Greene County, New York. It was erected in 1894 as a small stone chapel in the Gothic Revival style. It was subsequently enlarged in the 1910s with the enlargement of the chancel and addition of transepts. It features a large square bell tower at the southwest corner that also serves as the principal entrance.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>Centre Presbyterian Church, also known as Centre Church, is a historic Presbyterian church at Main  and Church streets in Windham, Greene County, New York. It was built in 1835 and is a New England style frame church with elements of Federal and Greek Revival design. It features a pedimented grant portico supported by paired Ionic order columns and a three-stage bell tower.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. After being closed for several years, the church was donated to the town of Windham in the 1970s for use as a civic centre. The building underwent extensive renovations in the 1990s and is home to the Windham Music Festival.</p><br>
<p>Church of St. John the Evangelist was a historic Episcopal church on Chittenden Road  in Stockport, Columbia County, New York. It was completed in August, 1846 at a cost of $12,000 and consecrated by Bishop Heathcote Delancey of the Diocese of Western New York on July 3, 1847. Earlier, the Reverend Henry Townsend of the Diocese of Connecticut rode on horseback over the Berkshire Mountains to attend the original incorporation meeting on Sept. 20, 1845. St. Johns was the first Episcopal church built in Columbia County, NY and its grounds bear one of two original lychgates in the county, the second being at St. Marks Church in Philmont. St. Johns was a one-story, rectangular, wood-frame building in the board-and-batten Carpenter Gothic style painted deep brown, hence its affectionate local moniker, "The Little Brown Church.". It featured a projecting center entrance tower holding a cast iron church bell, double entry doors, stained glass window and upper double vents. The main entrance, flanked by iron boot scrapers, opens to reveal a simple vestibule bearing the bell rope and a framed plaque in memory of Joseph Marshall, builder of the church, whose remains are interred beneath where the north transept was. Marshall was born in Huddersfield, England in 1773, emigrated to America in 1827, built St. Johns in 1846 and died in 1848. Steep gable roofs protected the horizontal main structure containing the organ loft, nave, chancel and sanctuary. The north and south walls of the nave each contained four beautiful stained glass windows. At the building&#39;s northwest corner at right angles to the main nave was a former sacristy, which used to form the organ chamber. At the southwest corner stood the sacristy. The adjacent cemetery contains approximately 2,200 burials from 1821 to the present.</p><br>
<p>On April 13, 1972, following two years of research by historic preservationist Helen M. Ofield, the Church of St. John the Evangelist at Stockport, NY was officially designated a national historic site on the National Register of Historic Places. This event paid tribute not only to the architectural beauty and uniqueness of St. John&#39;s, but to its historical meaning as an American country church. The Town of Stockport and the church literally grew up together. The builders, communicants, and financial supporters were originally either owners of textile mills in Stockport and environs, or employees of those mills.</p><br>
<p>St. Johns perfectly complemented Stockport, a quiet place dominated by pre-Civil War houses. To the south of the church stand three houses originally built by Joseph Marshall, builder of St. Johns. Opposite stands the 1853 Italianate Revival home, "Maple Lawn," built by inventor Rensselaer Reynolds, who designed, built and operated the first electrically powered textile loom, and whose family helped to sustain the church. A son, Robert Burns Reynolds, built a charming Victorian home ("The Grove") in 1888 on land adjacent to the south side of the church cemetery. All of these homes thrive today in private ownership. Also opposite the church is the 1816 brick federal house built by Captain Seth Macy, the third Yankee clipper captain to sail to China. Macy sold the house to Joseph Marshall in 1828. This noble old house is in disastrous condition in 2017.</p><br>
<p>The history of Stockport is tied to the economic history of Western Europe. The 19th century was barely underway when fresh economic disasters struck the thriving textile town of Stockport, Cheshire, England. These periodic depressions altered destinies, spurred migrations and uprooted families. The scion of one such family, James Wild, 20, left Stockport for the New World, where he hoped to invest the remains of the Wild family fortune in textile manufacture. He landed in New York State in 1806 and did just that. About 1808 he settled on a site at the junction of two tributaries of the Hudson River, the Claverack and Columbiaville Creeks, and began to build up the area. He named his new-born town Stockport.</p><br>
<p>The church was demolished in 2019. The diocese hired an antiques dealer to remove it.</p><br>
<p>Jewett Presbyterian Church Complex is a historic Presbyterian church on Church Street in Jewett, Greene County, New York. The complex consists of the 1848 Jewett Presbyterian Church and adjacent 1848 former Methodist Episcopal Church. The Jewett Presbyterian Church is a two-story, four by three bay timber-framed building sheathed in clapboard and topped by a gable roof. The former Methodist Episcopal Church was built using a one-story, four by three bay plan and features a moderately pitched gable roof. Both structures feature Greek Revival design elements.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>Leeds Dutch Reformed Church is a historic Dutch Reformed church on Co. Rt. 23B  in Leeds, Greene County, New York. It was built about 1818 and is a two-story, gable fronted stone church with restrained Federal / Greek Revival style features. It is rectangular in plan, three bays wide and four bays deep. It features a square, two stage belfry topped by an octagonal, metal shingle clad spire added about 1855.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>North Settlement Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church on County Route 10, east of the junction with County Route 32C in Ashland, Greene County, New York. It was built about 1826 and is a one-story, four by three bay, post and beam frame church with a modestly pitched gable roof. Also on the property is a small wood frame privy.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Oak Hill Methodist Episcopal Church, also known as Durham-Oak Hill Methodist Church, is a historic Methodist Episcopal church in Oak Hill, Greene County, New York. It was built about 1859 and is a one-story, roughly square shaped frame building of the traditional meetinghouse type. It features an engaged central tower and Greek Revival style features.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>Old Episcopal Manse is a historic Episcopal manse building on New York State Route 23, Main Street in Prattsville, Greene County, New York. It was built about 1845 and is a -story, cross-gable house type with Gothic Revival style features. It features board and batten siding and a steeply pitched gable roof. Also on the property is a carriage house, also built about 1845.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>St. Francis DeSales Church is a historic Roman Catholic church on Church Street in Lexington, Greene County, New York. It was completed in 1895 and is a one-story, four by one bay light frame structure on a stone and concrete foundation. It features a steeply pitched gable roof, narrow clapboard sheathing, and an enclosed porch.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>St. Mary&#39;s of the Mountain Church was an historic Roman Catholic church on New York State Route 23A in Hunter, Greene County, New York. The church was completed in 1839 and is a one-story, four by two bay, post and beam frame structure on a modern concrete foundation. It features a moderately pitched gable roof, narrow clapboard sheathing, two engaged corner towers, and a Romanesque style engaged entry / bell tower. Also on the property is the parish cemetery.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>It was razed on 04/12/2017.</p><br>
<p>St. Pauls Lutheran Church, originally St. Pauls Episcopal Church, is a historic Lutheran church at 464 Main Street in Oak Hill, Greene County, New York. The original section was built in 1843 and is a heavy timber frame rectangular structure, three bays wide by four bays deep, in a conventional meeting house style. In 1883, a light frame chancel addition was completed and it features a steeply pitched gable roof.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Trinity Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church on NY 23, southwest of the junction with Co. Rd. 19 in Ashland, Greene County, New York. It was built in 1879 and is a one-story, three by three bay, wood-frame structure clad with board and batten siding in the Gothic Revival style. It features a three-story entry / bell tower.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Union Chapel, also known as Mitchell Hollow Union Chapel, is a historic chapel on Mill Road in Windham, Greene County, New York. It was built in 1897 and is a one-story, three by three bay, wood-frame structure resting on a stone and concrete foundation. It is sheathed in narrow clapboards and features a fully pedimented portico and a two-stage bell tower. It was built by the local Methodist Episcopal and Presbyterian congregations.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>West Settlement Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church on West Settlement Road at the junction with Cleveland Road in Ashland, Greene County, New York. It was built in 1832 and is a one-story, three by four bay, post and beam structure on a limestone block foundation. It features a moderately pitched gable roof and frieze on the gable ends.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>First United Methodist Church is a historic United Methodist church at 7 Elm Street at Bleecker Square in Gloversville, Fulton County, New York. It was designed by Horatio Nelson White in the Romanesque Revival style and was built from 1869 to 1870. The main block / sanctuary is a two-story red brick structure set on a cut stone foundation. It is flanked by a staged entrance / bell tower and two-story office wing. An addition was completed in 1909 and is a two-story, polygonal brick structure containing a chapel, Sunday School room and parish hall.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>In 2000 the First United Methodist Church sold this building to another church organization, but the building has been vacant since then.</p><br>
<p>Log Cabin Church is a historic non-denominational church at 413 Progress Road in the hamlet of Progress in the town of Mayfield, Fulton County, New York. It was built in 1937 and is a 26 feet deep by 18 feet wide log structure constructed of white poplar logs laid horizontally. Also on the property is a privy and a parish activities hall.</p><br>
<p>The Log Cabin Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>St. John&#39;s Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church at 1 North Market Street in Johnstown, Fulton County, New York. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>It consists of a rectangular, gable roofed main block and an attached parish hall wing. The main block of the church was completed in 1837 and consists of tall random ashlar stone walls and engaged stone entrance / bell tower. It features Gothic details. Extensive renovations on the building took place in 1911. Located on the property is the grave of church founder and colonial leader Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet (1715–1774).</p><br>
<p>It is the second church on this site; the original church having burned in 1836.</p><br>
<p>First Congregational Church is a historic church at 2 Clay Street in Malone, New York.</p><br>
<p>The third building of the congregation on the site, it was built in 1883. The congregation was the first formed in Franklin County, NY, in 1807, with the first settled pastor in the county (Rev. Ashbel Parmelee). The congregation erected its first church building in 1826 and replaced that first stone building with a second, of brick, in 1852. It is this second building that is thought to have been built with passages to secret escaping slaves on their way to Canada. One of these tunnels is extant in the basement of the current church building. Vice President William A. Wheeler was a member of the church.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>First Union Protestant Church of Mountain View is a historic church located at 7 Church Road in Bellmont, Franklin County, New York. It was built in 1915–1916, and is a one-story, rectangular, meetinghouse-style church. It measures 26 feet, 4 inches wide and 45 feet, 6 inches deep. It has a front gable roof and sits on a stone foundation. It features a square corner steeple/tower with an open belfry.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>First Congregational and Presbyterian Society Church of Westport, now known as United Church of Christ of Wadhams, is a historic Congregational church on Main Street/CR 10 in Westport, Essex County, New York. It was built in 1837 and is a vernacular, Federal style meeting house form building. It is a one-story building with clapboard exterior siding and a simple gable roof. It features a two tiered belfry with dome shaped roof above the west gable end. The adjacent parish hall was formerly a dance hall and moved to this site in 1901. It is a plain, two story rectangular structure with a gable roof and clapboard siding.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>First Congregational Church and Cemetery is a historic Congregational church and cemetery on US 9 at Elizabethtown-Lewis Road in Lewis, Essex County, New York.</p><br>
<p>According to a church historian (Mrs. Milford Lee), a group of residents met in Elizabethtown on 12 June 1812 to organize a local Congregational church. Those present included Rev. Cyrus Comstock and Rev. Burbank, as well as fourteen local residents who became members of the church.</p><br>
<p>The church was built between 1823 and 1834 and slightly modified in the late 19th century. It is a rectangular, gable roofed frame building sheathed in clapboard siding. It features a large, central bell tower with an elegant Federal style belfry topped by a bell cast roof. Adjacent to the church is the 7.6 acre village cemetery established in the 1820s and still in use today. Among those laid to rest in its cemetery is the suffragist Inez Milholland.</p><br>
<p>The church became part of the larger United Church of Christ in February 1961.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Mount Moriah Presbyterian Church, also known as First Presbyterian Church, is a historic Presbyterian church located at Church and S. Main Sts., NW corner, Town of Moriah in Port Henry, Essex County, New York. It was built in 1888 and is a distinguished example of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture. It is rectangular in plan and constructed of dark sandstone. It features an unusual two story, hipped roof, combination porte cochere and bell tower.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>Beekman Meeting House and Friends&#39; Cemetery is located on Emans Road in LaGrangeville, New York, United States. The meeting house is a wooden building from the early 19th century that has been unused and vacant for decades. As a result, it is in an advanced state of decay, and mostly collapsed. The cemetery, better preserved, is located a short distance away.</p><br>
<p>The meeting house was built in 1809 for a meeting that split off from another one in the nearby hamlet of Oswego. After the Hicksite-Orthodox schism in 1828, it was one of only two meetings in the county to embrace Orthodox Quakerism. After that meeting dissolved in the early 20th century, it was for a time a Grange hall. It and its nearby cemetery were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Meetinghouse</h2><br>
<p>The house is located on Emans Road, which runs parallel to state highway NY 82 a mile north of the Taconic State Parkway&#39;s Arthursburg exit. It is located on an overgrown lot of just under an acre returning to forest at the northeast corner of the Pulling Road intersection. The neighborhood is residential, with houses on large, mostly cleared lots in an otherwise wooded area. There is a small, swampy pond to the east.</p><br>
<p>Only the northernmost section of the house remains standing, a small service wing of the original building. It is a shed-roofed one-and-a-half-story frame structure sided in clapboard. A boarded-up window is located in the apex of the building; an open frame is on the ground story. The south side is an exposed interior wall with doorways and openings to the kitchen intact. It is painted white; the similar paint on the exterior walls has mostly faded and flaked off. On the ground to the south are scattered wooden debris roughly corresponding to the house&#39;s onetime footprint.</p><br>
<h2>Cemetery</h2><br>
<p>The cemetery is on a separate parcel on the south side of Pulling Road, 600 ft southeast of the meetinghouse. A small path goes to it between two new houses. It is a small, quiet graveyard surrounded by woods, with stones dating to the mid-19th century. Of the Quaker graveyards in the county, it is the one closest to the original principles.</p><br>
<p>It is not certain whether the cemetery and meetinghouse were originally on the same large parcel. The pond is directly between the two, and there is no evidence of a path. It may have been chosen as the cemetery site since it was on a rise and drier than the land closer to the meetinghouse where a cemetery would usually be located.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Throughout the 18th century, Quakers had moved into Dutchess County from other regions of the colonies, particularly New England. They sought less settled areas, where they could practice their religion without being disturbed or persecuted and live lives closer to nature and God. In the later 18th century, Quaker emigrations dwindled both as the county grew, and especially during the Revolutionary War as it became more militarized.</p><br>
<p>The meeting was founded in the years just before 1800 by members of the nearby Oswego Meeting in Moore&#39;s Mill when there were enough of them who lived in what was still at the time part of the Town of Beekman to constitute their own meeting. Their first meeting house, of which no traces remain, was a simple square building, unevenly divided inside with separate entrances for men and women, a feature common in Quaker meetinghouses of that era.</p><br>
<p>By 1809 the Beekman meeting had grown so quickly it was necessary to construct a new building, the one whose wing remains today. In keeping with updated Quaker practice, it was a long building with moderately pitched gable roof and a full-width porch on the west elevation. The original plan called for a 33 by with 11 ft posts, but the superior meeting ordered the post height reduced a foot (30.5 cm) and the final building varied slightly even from those plans.</p><br>
<p>The interior had a sliding center partition. Its materials were finely crafted but restrained in decoration, per Quaker doctrine calling for plainness. It was similar to the extant building at Oswego, unsurprising since the Beekman meeting had originally been part of that group.</p><br>
<p>In 1828 the Hicksite–Orthodox split occurred in American Quakerism. The Beekman meeting was one of only two in the county to take the latter path, in which believers built meetinghouses more like traditional churches and adopted other religious practices. Unlike other Orthodox meetings, the Beekman Friends never hired a pastor, and as a result its meetings became irregular by the early 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The local Grange began renting the house for meetings, as it did at the Creek and Pleasant Valley meetings, also in Dutchess County. By the 1920s it took over ownership. Twenty years later, it, too, began declining in membership and eventually ceased to exist, leaving the meeting house to deteriorate. With no organization or person behind it doing regular maintenance, the building had become seriously dilapidated by the time it was listed on the Register with some of the other early meetinghouses in the county in 1988. That decline has continued to the point where little of it stands today.</p><br>
<p>Clinton Corners Friends Church is a historic Society of Friends meeting house on Salt Point Turnpike/Main Street in Clinton Corners, Dutchess County, New York, United States. It is located directly across the street from the Creek Meeting House and Friends&#39; Cemetery. The congregation originated during the Quaker schism of 1828 when Creek Friends Meeting split into Hicksite and Orthodox meetings.</p><br>
<p>The Orthodox meeting moved about a mile north of Clinton Corners to the Shingle Meeting House located on the grounds of the current Friends Upton Lake Cemetery. The Orthodox meeting grew as they welcomed Protestants from other denominations and began to refer to themselves as a "church". In 1890 they moved back into the village to the current location and built a one-story, rectangular frame building on a stone foundation right across from the still active Creek Meeting. In 1916, feeling the need for more space, this building was moved further from the road and a shingle style rectangular structure with a jerkin-head gable roof was built and attached to front of relocated 1890 structure. The former 1890 meeting room was converted into a gym and dining hall for community suppers. A small addition in the 1920s at the back included a stage.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Orthodox Meeting followed further schisms in the 19th century towards more mainstream Protestant practices and became a Friends Church, and part of Friends United Meeting. In the mid-1970s the congregation aligned with Evangelical Friends and started a school. By the mid-1980s the congregation had aligned with the Evangelical Free Church of America and the last services in the building were held in 1986. The building soon after became a private residence.</p><br>
<p>Creek Meeting House and Friends&#39; Cemetery is a historic Society of Friends meeting house and cemetery on Salt Point Turnpike/Main Street in Clinton Corners, Dutchess County, New York, United States. It was built between 1777 and 1782. The meeting house is a two-story, squarish building constructed of fieldstone. Land for the building was given by Able Peters, whose substantial brick house is the next building on the same side of the road north of the meeting house. In 1828 the Friends Creek Meeting split into Hicksite and Orthodox meetings. The Orthodox meeting moved about a mile north of Clinton Corners to the Shingle Meeting House located on the grounds of the current Friends Upton Lake Cemetery. The Creek Meeting sold the building to the Upton Lake Grange in 1927 and joined the Bulls Head Meeting in 1936.</p><br>
<p>The Grange transferred the building to the Town of Clinton Historical Society in 1995. The original slate covered, moderately pitched gable roof was replaced with metal in the early 21st century by the Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>The still active surrounding cemetery contains over 100 headstones of slate in a plain Quaker style along with many marble and newer granite. The early tradition of marking graves with wood has also left nearly 100 unmarked graves which are noted on the July 1938 survey of the cemetery. The Peters family plot in the northwestern portion of the burial grounds was moved to make room for the Poughkeepsie and Eastern Railroad and is distinguished by its low enclosure.</p><br>
<p>The Creek Meeting house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 and is located directly across the street from the Clinton Corners Friends Church.</p><br>
<p>Crum Elbow Meeting House and Cemetery is a historic Society of Friends meeting house and cemetery in East Park, Dutchess County, New York. It was built in 1797, with an addition built about 1810. It is a two-story, white painted frame building with weather board siding and a moderately pitched gable roof. The surrounding rural cemetery contains plain Quaker style markers dated from about 1797 to 1890.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Oswego Meeting House and Friends Cemetery is a historic Society of Friends meeting house and cemetery in Moores Mill, Dutchess County, New York. It was built in 1790 and is a -story frame building sided with clapboards and wooden shingles. It has a moderately pitched gable roof and two entrances on the front facade, each flanked by two windows. The cemetery contains about 50 stones and burials range in date from the 1790s to 1880s. Also on the property is a privy.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Saint Mark&#39;s Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church on Liberty Street in Chelsea, Dutchess County, New York. It was built in 1866 and is a small rectangular frame church building in the Gothic Revival style. It has a steeply pitched gable roof, topped by a belfry. It features a three-part lancet window.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>St. Margarets Home, also known as Mrs. Astors Orphan Asylum, is a historic Episcopal orphanage located at 7260 South Broadway in Red Hook, Dutchess County, New York. It was built in 1852, and is a two-story, Italian Villa style brick building with brownstone trim. It features a front porch with fluted cast iron columns, French windows, and round arched center double entrance. Its construction and operation until 1872 was supported by Margaret Rebecca Armstrong Astor , wife of William Backhouse Astor, Sr.  From 1872 to 1875, its patron was Margaret Astor Ward Chanler, wife of John Winthrop Chanler , after which Congressman Chanler until his death in 1877 and afterwards the Chanler Estate. The orphanage closed in 1932.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>St. Paul&#39;s Lutheran Church, Parsonage and Cemetery is a historic Lutheran church, parsonage, and cemetery in Wurtemberg in Dutchess County, New York.</p><br>
<p>The church was built about 1802, enlarged in 1832, and remodeled in 1861. It is a large, two-story rectangular frame building with a gable roof and prominent central tower. It is in the Federal style. The parsonage was built about 1870 and is a two-story, center-hall frame building in the Italianate style. The cemetery has burials dating from the 18th and 19th centuries. Also on the property are two sheds.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>Free Church Parsonage is a historic church parsonage at the junction of William and Grinnell Streets in Rhinecliff, Dutchess County, New York. It was built about 1869 and is a -story, frame cottage with board-and-batten siding in the Gothic Revival style. It has a medium pitched gable roof and has a 1-story hip-roofed verandah. Also on the property is a contributing stone wall.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>Hillside Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church on US 9 in Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, New York. It was built about 1855 and is a small, one story, rectangular stone building in a rural, picturesque style by a Polish minister by the name of Stew P. Deed. It features elaborate scroll-sawn bargeboards and a steeply pitched gable roof. It has an open-frame bell tower.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>Riverside Methodist Church and Parsonage is a historic Methodist church and parsonage on Charles and Orchard Streets in Rhinecliff, Dutchess County in the USA state of New York. The church was built about 1859 and the parsonage about 1888. The church is a small, two-story, rectangular stone building in the Gothic Revival style. It features a steeply pitched gable roof covered in polychrome slate. It has an open-frame bell tower and is built into the side of a hill. The parsonage is a two-story, T-shaped frame dwelling topped by a cross-gable roof. Also on the property is a contributing garage.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>Bloomville Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic Methodist Episcopal church and parsonage of New York state.</p><br>
<p>It is located at 35 Church Street in Bloomville, a hamlet of Kortright in Delaware County. The church is a large rectangular wood-frame buildings constructed in stages between about 1810 and 1889. It is surmounted by a steep gable roof and a three-stage tower. The parsonage is a -story wood-frame building with a hipped roof built in 1904.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>Christ Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church building located at Walton in Delaware County, New York. It was built in 1832 in the Federal Gothic style and received an overlay of Victorian period decoration in 1883. It is a wood-frame structure and characterized by a rectangular meeting house plan, including a vestibule, nave, chancel, and sacristy. It features a steep gable roof and a central projecting entrance tower surmounted by a wooden belfry.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Christian Church, also known as Fitches Bridge Church, is a historic church on NY 10 at East Delhi in Delaware County, New York. It was built in 1861 and is in the Greek Revival style with an overlay of Gothic Revival decoration. It is a small rectangular structure of post and beam construction. It features 12 narrow, engaged towers with pinnacles that mark the corners of the building.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>First Old School Baptist Church of Roxbury and Vega Cemetery is a historic Baptist church and cemetery located at Roxbury in Delaware County, New York. The church was built in 1856 in a Greek Revival style and is a rectangular, front gabled frame building in the meeting house form. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>This building is currently a venue of the Roxbury Arts Group and is used seasonally for acoustic performances. The Roxbury Arts Group is located in the hamlet of Roxbury on 5025 Vega Mountain Road. To find out more about the Old School Baptist Church and the Roxbury Arts Group visit https://roxburyartsgroup.org/.</p><br>
<p>New Kingston Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church on CR 6 in New Kingston, Delaware County, New York, United States. It is a one-story, rectangular wood-frame building on a stone foundation built in 1900. It features a steep gable roof with slate shingles and a broad raking cornice. It also has a three-stage, engaged corner tower.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Old School Baptist Church of Halcottsville is a historic Baptist church building on Old NY 30 in Halcottsville, Delaware County, New York. It is a one-story, wood-frame building constructed in 1886 by Eld. Isaac Hewitt as a branch of the Second Old School Baptist Church of Roxbury. The interior features a traditional meeting house plan.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>St. John&#39;s Church Complex is a historic Episcopal church complex at 136 Main Street in Delhi, Delaware County, New York. The complex consists of the church / chapel, parish house, rectory, rectory garage, connecting stairway, and site of the 1831 church. The centerpiece is the 1887-1888 Richardsonian Romanesque style Sheldon Memorial Chapel.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>St. Peter&#39;s Episcopal Church Complex is a historic Episcopal church complex at the junction of Pine and Church Streets in Hobart, Delaware County, New York. The complex includes the church, cemetery, rectory, and carriage house. The church was built about 1801 and is a small frame building, 48 feet by 38 feet, with a stone foundation, clapboard siding, and a gable roof. It features a central projecting square tower surmounted by a wooden balustrade and an octagonal louvered belfry with steeple.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>Second Old School Baptist Church of Roxbury is a historic Baptist church building on City Rd. 41 in Roxbury, Delaware County, New York. It is a 2-story, three-by-four-bay wood-frame building constructed in 1832–1833. The interior features a traditional meeting house plan. Also on the property is a small frame outhouse built about 1870, a three-step fieldstone carriage step, and cemetery.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
