Reformed Church of Newtown
- Year
- 1832
- Style
- Greek Revival
- City
- Queens, NY
The Reformed Church of Newtown, in the Elmhurst neighborhood of Queens, traces its congregation to Dutch immigrants who founded it in 1731 in the village of Middenburgh, renamed New Town after the English took over New Netherland in 1664 and later simplified to Newtown, then Elmhurst. It belongs to the Reformed Church in America, founded in 1628 and the oldest Protestant denomination in the United States. The original Federal-Greek Revival building, completed in 1735, survived the colonial period and the American Revolutionary War, during which the British seized it for use as an armory, before being replaced by the current 1832 Greek Revival structure.
the style
The current building was constructed in the Greek Revival style in 1832, replacing the earlier Federal-Greek Revival structure of 1735 that had served the congregation through the colonial era and the Revolutionary War.
More on Greek Revivalsignificance
The church is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a New York City Landmark.
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