{"nrhp_refnum":"03001120","name":"Woodbourne Reformed Church Complex","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NY 42","address_restricted":false,"city":"Woodbourne","county":"Sullivan County","state":"NY","lat":41.76188392100005,"lon":-74.59953489199995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-11-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural church complex on NY 42 in the hamlet of Woodbourne, Sullivan County, New York. It has a Greek Revival church built in 1837 and enlarged in 1848-49, a chapel/Sunday school building from 1849, and an adjacent cemetery.","why_significant":"The complex represents the religious and social history of one of the town of Fallsburg's earliest settlement groups, Dutch-descended settlers of the Neversink Valley. The enlarged church is a distinguished example of Greek Revival ecclesiastical architecture with a distyle in-antis form. The chapel began as a public school and was later bought by the church, and the cemetery holds many early congregation leaders.","narrative":"Woodbourne Reformed Church Complex sits on the east side of NY 42 in the Sullivan County hamlet of Woodbourne. It brings together a wood-frame church, a small chapel and Sunday school building, and a cemetery with several hundred burials from about 1850 to 2002. The church was built in 1837 and enlarged in 1848 with a temple-form facade of Doric columns and pilasters and an octagonal tower, which was replaced in 1893 after a fire. The chapel started as a public school around 1849 and was bought by the congregation in 1891, keeping its bell. The congregation traces to Dutch-descended settlers who organized in 1802 and moved from Hasbrouck to Woodbourne after their church burned in 1836. Over the following century the group became a center of religious and social life. The church is regarded as a distinguished Greek Revival example, and the church and chapel share a visual unity of materials and classical detail.","period_of_significance":"1837-1953","architect_builder":"unknown (contractors for the 1837 church noted as a Mr. Nelson and Albert Tyril)","architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Church, chapel and cemetery remain in religious and funerary use; the chapel is used for winter services.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:52.624063-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/03001120.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03001120/49bb5b5ee7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03001120/49bb5b5ee7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Vonsky87","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woodbourne_Reformed_Church,_Woodbourne,_NY.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Vonsky87</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woodbourne_Reformed_Church,_Woodbourne,_NY.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322427","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodbourne_Reformed_Church_Complex","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8032396"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/sullivan-county/woodbourne-reformed-church-complex-03001120/"}