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Brook Chapel is a historic chapel located at Hillburn in Rockland County, New York, USA. It was built in 1893 and is a light frame L-shaped, gable-roofed structure expanded to its current size in the first half of the 20th century. At the time of the expansion, it acquired its
Gothic Revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...
style. ''Note:'' This includes an
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/ref> It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. From 1907 until 1920, Rev.
Byron Gunner Rev. Byron Gunner (1857–1922) was an American minister, educator, newspaper publisher, and civil rights activist. He was one of the seventeen African-American founders of the Niagara Movement, representing Rhode Island. Early life and educati ...
served as the church pastor; and his wife Cicely Savery Gunner was involved with the Brook Chapel Sunday School and the Brook School.


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Main School (Hillburn, New York) Main School, also known as the Suffern Central School District Administration Building, is a historic school building located at Hillburn, Rockland County, New York. It was built in 1912, and is a two-story hollow tile and concrete building cover ...
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Rockland County, New York List of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Rockland County, New York This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Rockland County, New York. The lo ...


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Properties of religious function on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Churches completed in 1893 19th-century churches in the United States Churches in Rockland County, New York Ramapos National Register of Historic Places in Rockland County, New York {{NewYork-church-stub