Woodrow Methodist Church is a historic

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at 1109 Woodrow Road in Woodrow,

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. It was built in 1842 and is a wood-frame, clapboard-sided, temple-form

Greek Revival The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but a ...

style building. It features a portico with four

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columns supporting a plain entablature and unadorned pediment. Above the portico is a three-stage, open bell tower and

spire A spire is a tall, slender, pointed structure on top of a roof of a building or tower, especially at the summit of church steeples. A spire may have a square, circular, or polygonal plan, with a roughly conical or pyramidal shape. Spires a ...

in a vernacular

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style added in 1876. Also on the property is a two-story clapboard house built about 1850 and expanded in 1860–61. ''Note:'' This includes an
''Accompanying five photographs''
/ref> It was added to the

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in 1982.

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Properties of religious function on the National Register of Historic Places in Staten Island Italianate architecture in New York City Greek Revival architecture in New York City Greek Revival church buildings in New York City Churches completed in 1842 19th-century Methodist church buildings in the United States Churches in Staten Island New York City Designated Landmarks in Staten Island Methodist churches in New York City 1842 establishments in New York (state) Woodrow, Staten Island Italianate church buildings in the United States {{StatenIsland-church-stub

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