Methodist Episcopal Church (Stony Creek, New York)
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Methodist Episcopal The Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC) was the oldest and largest Methodist denomination in the United States from its founding in 1784 until 1939. It was also the first religious denomination in the US to organize itself nationally. In 1939, th ...
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 ...
located at
Stony Creek Stony Creek may refer to the following waterways or communities: Waterways Australia * Stony Creek, a tributary of the Allyn River, in the Hunter region of New South Wales * Stony Creek, a tributary of the Brogo River, in the South Coast region ...
,
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. It was built in 1858-59 and is a vernacular
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 frame church with a gable roof. It is 32 feet wide and 48 feet deep and sits on a stone foundation. It 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 ...
added in 1874. The
stained glass Stained glass refers to coloured glass as a material or art and architectural works created from it. Although it is traditionally made in flat panels and used as windows, the creations of modern stained glass artists also include three-dimensio ...
windows date to the 1950s. ''Note:'' This includes an
''Accompanying 11 photographs''
/ref> It was added to the
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in 2010.


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Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Churches completed in 1858 19th-century Methodist church buildings in the United States Churches in Warren County, New York National Register of Historic Places in Warren County, New York Methodist Episcopal churches in the United States {{NewYork-Methodist-church-stub