Christ Lutheran Church and Parsonage, originally the German Evangelical Lutheran Church of

Ellenville Ellenville is a village within the town of Wawarsing, Ulster County, New York, United States. Its population was 4,135 at the 2010 census. Geography The village of Ellenville is about 90 miles northwest of New York City and 90 miles southwest ...

, is a historic

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and parsonage located at

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. The church was built in 1862 in the

Greek Revival The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but a ...

style. It was moved, enlarged, reoriented, and completely remodeled in 1903–1904 in the Gothic Revival style when moved to its present location. It is a roughly L-shaped building, with a T-shaped main block consisting of a -story, gable-roofed front block and -story gable-roofed rear block. Appended to it is a 1-story addition. It features a two-tiered, square bell tower, central front entrance flanked by blind bays, and Gothic arched stained glass windows. The parsonage is a 2-story, three-bay-wide, Greek Revival–style brick dwelling built about 1850. ''See also:'' It was listed on the

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in 2010. It is located in the

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German-American culture in New York (state) Lutheran churches in New York (state) Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Carpenter Gothic church buildings in New York (state) Greek Revival church buildings in New York (state) Churches in Ulster County, New York Churches completed in 1862 1862 establishments in New York (state) National Register of Historic Places in Ulster County, New York Historic district contributing properties in New York (state) {{NewYork-church-stub