Asbury United Methodist Church and Bethel Chapel and Cemetery | |
 Bethel Cemetery | |
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| Location | 19 Old Post Rd. and Old Post Rd. S, Croton-on-Hudson, New York |
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| Coordinates | 41°12′26″N73°52′50″W / 41.20722°N 73.88056°W |
| Area | 6.8 acres (2.8 ha) |
| Built | 1790 |
| Architectural style | Late Victorian, Federal |
| NRHP reference No. | 00000310 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | March 31, 2000 |
Asbury United Methodist Church and Bethel Chapel and Cemetery is a national historic district containing a Methodist church, chapel, and cemetery at 19 Old Post Road in Croton-on-Hudson, Westchester County, New York. The church was built in 1883 and is a rectangular brick building with a multi-colored slate-covered gable roof in the Gothic Revival style. It features large Gothic-arched stained and leaded glass windows added in 1891 and a square, engaged, two stage tower. The chapel was built about 1790 and is a 1+1⁄2-story, two-by-two-bay, clapboard-sided building on a granite foundation. Francis Asbury (1745–1816) is known to have visited the chapel on September 20, 1795. The cemetery is in two sections and contains about 5,000 graves; the date of the earliest burial is 1801. It includes the grave of noted playwright and author Lorraine Hansberry (1930–1965). [2]
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It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. [1]
