St. Paul's Lutheran Church Historic District, also known as Schoharie United Presbyterian Church, is a historic

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complex and national

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located at Schoharie,

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. The complex consists of the former St. Paul's Lutheran Church, an 1801 manse, St. Paul's Lutheran Cemetery, and the old Lutheran Parsonage. The church was built in 1796, and is a two-story rectangular brick building. The front facade features a square, multistage entrance tower capped by an octagonal belfry and spire. The new manse was built in 1801, and is a five bay, two-story, double pile, heavy timber frame

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style dwelling with a two-story rear ell. The church

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has several thousand graves, with the earliest marked grave dated to 1778. The Old Lutheran Parsonage was built in 1743, and is separately listed. In 1920, the local Lutheran and Methodist congregations joined, and in 1960, the congregation voted to affiliate with the Presbyterian denomination. ''Note:'' This includes an
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in 2014.

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Lutheran churches in New York (state) Historic American Buildings Survey in New York (state) Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Federal architecture in New York (state) Churches completed in 1796 Churches in Schoharie County, New York 18th-century Lutheran churches in the United States 18th-century Presbyterian church buildings in the United States National Register of Historic Places in Schoharie County, New York 1796 establishments in New York (state) {{NewYork-church-stub