44--50 Ferry St., Beacon, New York. County/parish: Dutchess.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 31, 1988. NRIS 88001438.
1 contributing building. 1 contributing site.The Reformed Church of Beacon, originally the Reformed Dutch Church of Fishkill Landing, is a historic and architecturally-significant church in Beacon, New York. The congregation, who no longer occupies the building, claims it is the oldest church in Beacon. It is located on NY 9D about 0.5 miles (1 km) south of Beacon's municipal complex and downtown area and overlooks the Hudson River from a bluff.
It was designed by Frederick Clarke Withers and built in 1860 using the High Victorian Gothic style, one of its earliest uses in the United States. The church and its cemetery were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. It is one of three Withers buildings in the city on the Register and a rare example of his church architecture in this style.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75317446