Leeds Dutch Reformed Church

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Leeds Dutch Reformed Church

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Leeds Dutch Reformed Church, July 2010
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Location Co. Rt. 23B (Susquehanna Tpk.), Leeds, New York
Coordinates 42°15′17″N73°54′4″W / 42.25472°N 73.90111°W / 42.25472; -73.90111 Coordinates: 42°15′17″N73°54′4″W / 42.25472°N 73.90111°W / 42.25472; -73.90111
Area less than one acre
Built ca. 1818
Architectural style Federal, Greek Revival
NRHP reference # 96000141 [1]
Added to NRHP February 22, 1996

Leeds Dutch Reformed Church is a historic Dutch Reformed church on Co. Rt. 23B (Susquehanna Turnpike) in Leeds, Greene County, New York. It was built about 1818 and is a two-story, gable fronted stone church with restrained Federal / Greek Revival style features. It is rectangular in plan, three bays wide and four bays deep. It features a square, two stage belfry topped by an octagonal, metal shingle clad spire added about 1855. [2]

The Dutch Reformed Church was the largest Christian denomination in the Netherlands from the onset of the Protestant Reformation until 1930. It was the foremost Protestant denomination, and—since 1892—one of the two major Reformed denominations along with the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands.

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Leeds, New York Census-designated place in New York, United States

Leeds is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in Greene County, New York, United States. The population was 377 at the 2010 census.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. [1]

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