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Fort Miller Reformed Church Complex is a historic church on Fort Miller Road, west of US 4 and south of Galusha Island and located at Fort Edward in
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History

The church was built in 1816. It began as a two-story, clapboard-sided sanctuary with a four-story
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in the
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style, attached to a carriage and horse shed dated to around 1818–22. A two-story rear wing was added in 1896. The complex also contains a parsonage (c. 1845), custodian/tenant house (c. 1845), and a late 19th-century clapboard barn that the church now uses as rental income property. ''See also:'' It was listed on the
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in 1996.


References

Reformed Church in America churches in New York (state) Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Federal architecture in New York (state) Churches completed in 1816 19th-century Calvinist and Reformed churches Churches in Washington County, New York 1816 establishments in New York (state) National Register of Historic Places in Washington County, New York {{NewYork-church-stub