Ulter Heights Rd and Beaver Dam Rd., Ulster Heights, New York. County/parish: Ulster.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places February 19, 2001. NRIS 01000045.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
Ulster Heights Synagogue, formally known as Congregation Knesset Israel of Ulster Heights, is a Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at the corner of Beaver Dam and Ulster Heights roads in the Ulster Heights section of the town of Wawarsing, in the Catskill region of New York, in the United States.
The congregation was formed in the early 1900s and the synagogue building was built in 1924 by the early Jewish American settlers of the southeastern Catskill region. In 2001 the synagogue building was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a relatively intact example of a vernacular rural synagogue typical of the region. Since its construction the building has been renovated and added to but it is still true to its original form. Over the years the original population of the area has dwindled and it has fewer members than it did in the early years. It has not held services on the High Holy Days in recent years.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322751