Union Meeting House (Cape Vincent, New York)

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Union Meeting House
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LocationMillens Bay Rd., Cape Vincent (town), New York
Coordinates 44°10′19″N76°14′32″W / 44.17194°N 76.24222°W / 44.17194; -76.24222 Coordinates: 44°10′19″N76°14′32″W / 44.17194°N 76.24222°W / 44.17194; -76.24222
Arealess than one acre
Built1869–1871;151 years ago (1871)
MPS Cape Vincent Town and Village MRA
NRHP reference No. 85002479 [1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 27, 1985

Union Meeting House, also known as the Millens Bay Union Church, is a historic church located at Millens Bay in the Town of Cape Vincent in Jefferson County, New York. [2] It was built between 1869 and 1871 as a cooperative Episcopal and Methodist union church, as a mission of St. John's Episcopal Church in the village of Cape Vincent and of the Methodist-Episcopal Church in St. Lawrence. [3] It is a one-story wood-frame structure, rectangular in plan, one bay wide and four bays long. It features a steeply pitched gable roof and steeple with a six sided spire. [4] It can seat about 200 individuals. [3] Interdemoninational services are held on Sunday mornings in July and August each summer. [2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. [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. 1 2 Cape Vincent Chamber of Commerce, Community Organizations (2020). "Cape Vincent Chamber of Commerce". Cape Vincent Chamber of Commerce. Retrieved August 2, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. 1 2 Child, Hamilton (1890). Horton, William (ed.). "Geographical Gazetteer of Jefferson County, N.Y. 1684-1890. p.317". Google Books. Syracuse NY: The Syracuse Journal Company. p. 317. Retrieved August 2, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. JoAnn Beck (July 1985). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Union Meeting House". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation . Retrieved 2009-12-10.