Old Southeast Church | |
&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:Old_Southeast_Church,_Southeast,_NY_edit1.jpg) Front (west) elevation, partially obscured by foliage, and south profile, 2008 | |
| Location | Southeast, NY |
|---|---|
| Nearest city | Danbury, CT |
| Coordinates | 41°25′53″N 73°34′27″W / 41.43139°N 73.57417°W |
| Built | 1793-94[1] |
| NRHP reference No. | 72000903 |
| Added to NRHP | 1972 |
The Old Southeast Church is located at the end of a short dirt road leading from NY 22 in the Town of Southeast, New York, United States, a few miles north of the village of Brewster. It is a wooden building formerly used by a Presbyterian congregation. Built in the late 18th century and later modified following a fire, it is the oldest house of worship in Putnam County.[2] Today many of its materials are intact but it is the subject of ongoing preservation efforts.
It and a small one-room schoolhouse nearby are the few remaining buildings from the former hamlet of Doanesburgh, once the commercial center of eastern Putnam County.[3] In 1972 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the first property in the county to be so listed. It is currently owned by the Landmarks Preservation Society of Southeast and is used occasionally as a cultural center.
- ^ Beebe Weaver, Lynn (May 19, 1972). "National Register of Historic Places nomination, Old Southeast Church". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Archived from the original on May 24, 2012. Retrieved March 23, 2009.
- ^ "Old Southeast Church". Southeast Museum. 1997–99. Archived from the original on December 5, 2008. Retrieved March 24, 2009.
- ^ "The history of Putnam County, N. Y.; with an enumeration of its towns, villages, rivers, creeks, lakes, ponds, mountains, hills, and geological features; local traditions; and short biographical sketches of early settlers, etc. By William J. Blake. New York, Baker & Scribner, 1849". [Middletown, N. Y., T. Emmett Henderson. 1970.