Roscoe Presbyterian Church and Westfield Flats Cemetery

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Roscoe Presbyterian Church and Westfield Flats Cemetery
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LocationOld NY 17, Roscoe, New York
Coordinates 41°55′56″N74°54′47″W / 41.93222°N 74.91306°W / 41.93222; -74.91306
Arealess than one acre
Builtca. 1884
Architectural styleLate Victorian
NRHP reference No. 01000574 [1]
Added to NRHPJune 8, 2001

Roscoe Presbyterian Church and Westfield Flats Cemetery is a historic Presbyterian church and cemetery on Old NY 17 in Roscoe, Sullivan County, New York. The church was built about 1884 and is a simple rectangular wood-frame building, three bays wide and three bays deep, with a large rear cross-gabled wing. It features a narrow, engaged, center entrance tower surmounted by a spire. The cemetery contains about 200 burials, with the earliest dating to the first decade of the 19th century. [2]

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Westfield Flats Cemetery, Roscoe, New York

The church was spared during the 1916 downtown fire which destroyed 23 buildings. [3] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. Kathleen LaFrank (January 2001). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Roscoe Presbyterian Church and Westfield Flats Cemetery". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation . Retrieved 2010-06-26.See also: "Accompanying seven photos".
  3. Risen from the Ashes (Sign on Stewart Avenue). Stewart Avenue, Roscoe: Chamber of Commerce. 2016.