First Baptist Church is a historic

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church Church may refer to: Religion * Church (building), a place/building for Christian religious activities and praying * Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination * Church service, a formalized period of Christian comm ...

on Polin Road in Charleston,

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. It is believed to have been built in the 1820s and remodeled during the 1860s. It is a rural vernacular wood-frame church executed in the late Federal / early

Greek Revival Greek Revival architecture is a architectural style, style that began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe, the United States, and Canada, ...

style. The -story, heavy timber-framed structure features a square, hip-roofed

bell tower A bell tower is a tower that contains one or more bells, or that is designed to hold bells even if it has none. Such a tower commonly serves as part of a Christian church, and will contain church bells, but there are also many secular bell to ...

. Also on the property are a

cemetery A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park or memorial garden, is a place where the remains of many death, dead people are burial, buried or otherwise entombed. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek ...

, dry-laid stone wall, and

receiving vault A receiving vault or receiving tomb, sometimes also known as a public vault, is a structure designed to temporarily store dead bodies in winter months when the ground is too frozen to dig a permanent grave in a cemetery. Technological advancements ...

. The majority of the burials date to the early 19th century, since the church had been organized about 1793. The Charleston Historical Society acquired the property in 1978. ''Note:'' This includes an
''Accompanying six photographs''
/ref> It was added to the

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in 1994.

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* Historic American Buildings Survey in New York (state) Baptist churches in New York (state) Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Federal architecture in New York (state) Gothic Revival church buildings in New York (state) Churches in Montgomery County, New York National Register of Historic Places in Montgomery County, New York {{NewYork-Baptist-church-stub