Ellis Methodist Episcopal Church, also known as Ellis Hollow Community Church, is a historic

Methodist Episcopal The Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC) was the oldest and largest Methodist denomination in the United States from its founding in 1784 until 1939. It was also the first religious denomination in the US to organize itself on a national basis. In ...

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located at Ellis Hollow in

Tompkins County, New York Tompkins County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 105,740. The county seat is Ithaca. The name is in honor of Daniel D. Tompkins, who served as Governor of New York and Vice President ...

. It was listed on the

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in 1993. The church was built in 1896. It is a frame building, about in plan. Includes five photos from 1991. It was deemed significant "as a representative example of late-nineteenth century ecclesiastical architecture in a small rural community. The small frame building features restrained Gothic-inspired motifs. The interior is laid out in an

Akron Plan The Akron Plan was a scheme for the design of churches and other religious buildings that housed Sunday schools. It was characterized by a set of wedge-shaped classrooms that radiated from the direction of a central superintendent's platform. D ...

, a popular arrangement for Methodist churches in the late nineteenth century. This plan is characterized by a diagonal orientation, with a corner entrance, a radial arrangement of pews, an altar in the opposite corner, and movable partitions marking the connection between the sanctuary and an adjacent Sunday school wing, allowing for the expansion of the auditorium when necessary." It is located on the north side of County Route 110, about east of its intersection with Highway 164 and is a private residence.

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External links

Ellis Hollow Community Church website
Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Churches completed in 1896 19th-century Methodist church buildings in the United States Churches in Tompkins County, New York National Register of Historic Places in Tompkins County, New York {{NewYork-church-stub