Reformed Dutch Church of Fishkill Landing

Set on a 2.2-acre parcel on Ferry Street in Beacon, this church complex centers on a brick church built in 1859 for the Reformed Dutch congregation of Fishkill Landing. English-born architect Frederick Clarke Withers designed it in the High Victorian Gothic style, with broad horizontal massing, Gothic-arched openings, bands of light brick and a cross-gabled polychrome slate roof. Its early date makes it a forerunner of better-known American buildings in the style. In the 1870s the congregation added rear wings and a square tower with an octagonal spire, and an organ was installed in 1895-96. Behind the church lies a cemetery in use from 1813 until about 1930, with marble markers, obelisks and carved funerary motifs. A parsonage on the property was heavily altered in 1907 and is not counted as contributing. The church was listed for its architecture, its link to early local families, and its cemetery.