Union Meeting House, also known as the Millens Bay Union Church, is a historic church located at Millens Bay in the Town of Cape Vincent in

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. It was built between 1869 and 1871 as a cooperative Episcopal and

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union church, as a mission of St. John's Episcopal Church in the village of Cape Vincent and of the Methodist-Episcopal Church in St. Lawrence. It is a one-story wood-frame structure, rectangular in plan, one bay wide and four bays long. It features a steeply pitched gable roof and steeple with a six sided

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. It can seat about 200 individuals. Interdenominational services are held on Sunday mornings in July and August each summer. It was listed on the

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in 1985.

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Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Episcopal church buildings in New York (state) Churches completed in 1869 Churches in Jefferson County, New York 19th-century Episcopal church buildings 1869 establishments in New York (state) National Register of Historic Places in Jefferson County, New York {{NewYork-Anglican-church-stub