{"nrhp_refnum":"83001690","name":"Flatbush Dutch Reformed Church Complex","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"890 Flatbush Ave. and 2101-2103 Kenmore Terr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Brooklyn","state":"NY","lat":40.65015442300006,"lon":-73.95875056599994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-09-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A religious complex at 890 Flatbush Avenue and 2101-2103 Kenmore Terrace in Brooklyn, made up of a 1796 stone church, a 1924 church house, an 1853 parsonage, and a cemetery.","why_significant":"The church is described as an extremely rare example of the rural Federal style in New York City and an unusual architect-designed rural eighteenth-century building. The 1853 parsonage is a transitional Greek Revival and Italianate house, one of few mid-nineteenth century residences surviving in Flatbush. The site has housed one of the three oldest continuous church congregations in the United States, and the cemetery holds most of Flatbush's early Dutch families.","narrative":"Three buildings and a burial ground make up this church complex in central Brooklyn. The gray schist church, completed in 1796 to designs by Thomas Fardon, is the third on the site and has a stone tower, an octagonal wooden lantern and a tall spire. Its apse was added in 1883, and Tiffany Studios stained glass was installed in 1889-1890. The parsonage, built in 1853 and moved to Kenmore Terrace in 1918, combines a Greek Revival form with Italianate details. The neo-Georgian church house of 1924, by the Brooklyn firm of Meyer & Mathieu, served the congregation's growing community work after World War I. The cemetery holds members of early Dutch families of Flatbush, including the Lott, Vanderbilt, Lefferts and Cortelyou names, and has eighteenth-century headstones with Dutch inscriptions. The congregation traces to the 1650s settlement of Midwout, and the church site has been used for worship since 1655.","period_of_significance":"1700-1799, 1800-1899, 1900-","architect_builder":"Thomas Fardon; Hans C. Meyer & Joseph Mathieu","architectural_style":"Federal (church); Greek Revival/Italianate transitional (parsonage); neo-Georgian (church house)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied and in religious use; condition marked excellent. The parsonage was moved to its present site in 1918.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:42.912746-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/83001690.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001690/8e922c048c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001690/8e922c048c-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Jim.henderson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flatbush_DRC_PM_winter_jeh.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim.henderson</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flatbush_DRC_PM_winter_jeh.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318385","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatbush_Reformed_Dutch_Church_Complex","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5457875"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/brooklyn/flatbush-dutch-reformed-church-complex-83001690/"}