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Glen Wild Methodist Church is a historic
Methodist Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity whose origins, doctrine and practice derive from the life and teachings of John Wesley. George Whitefield and John's b ...
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on Old Glen Wild Road in
Glen Wild A glen is a valley, typically one that is long and bounded by gently sloped concave sides, unlike a ravine, which is deep and bounded by steep slopes. Whittow defines it as a "Scottish term for a deep valley in the Highlands" that is "narrower ...
,
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. It was built in 1867 and is a rectangular, wood-frame building with
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siding in a vernacular
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style. It features square based tower, with belfry and steeple, projecting from the front facade. Also on the property is the former church hall built in 1944. It is a small, one-story wood-frame L-shaped building. ''Note:'' This includes an
''Accompanying seven photographs''
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in 1984.


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Methodist churches in New York (state) Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Gothic Revival church buildings in New York (state) Churches completed in 1867 19th-century Methodist church buildings in the United States Churches in Sullivan County, New York National Register of Historic Places in Sullivan County, New York {{NewYork-church-stub