Emmanuel Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal

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complex located at Little Falls in

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, USA. The complex consists of the original 1835 church building, an 1853

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style parsonage, and a parish hall built about 1937. The church is a simple rectangular building in the meetinghouse style with a

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. It is two stories and built of

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. ''See also:'' The church was listed on the

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in 2009. It was built in a period of growth of the Episcopal Church in upstate New York, where the population had expanded rapidly after the American Revolutionary War, attracting many migrants from New England. The

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became independent of the Anglican Church after the war. European-American Little Falls was originally settled by

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migrants and their descendants. Later settlers were of Dutch, English, and Scots-Irish descent, and often belonged to Protestant reform and Congregational traditions. The oldest families from the colonial era often also had

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ancestry, as this people historically occupied much of the Mohawk Valley and traded with new immigrants. A quarter century after the war, the American Episcopal church, had attracted more members, and its congregations built numerous churches in upstate towns.

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