South Bushwick Reformed Church, also known as the "White Church", is a historic
Dutch Reformed
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in
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,
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. The complex consists of the church and attached Sunday School building. The church was organized in 1851 by members of the Bushwick Reformed Church that dates back to 1654. Himrod St. was named after South Bushwick's first pastor. The church is a two-story frame, clapboard-sided building finished in 1853. Its design combines
Greek Revival
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and
Gibbsian classical styles. The Greek Revival entrance
portico
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features two giant fluted
Ionic order
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columns. Above the entrance portico is the tower with a square base and octagonal lantern and
spire
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.
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The Rev.
Samuel Merrill Woodbridge
The Reverend Samuel Merrill Woodbridge, D.D., LL.D. (April 5, 1819 – June 23, 1905) was an American clergyman, theologian, author, and college professor. A graduate of New York University and the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, Woodb ...
(1819–1905), a Reformed pastor, and later author and theology professor, served this congregation from 1841 to 1849 after receiving his degree from
New Brunswick Theological Seminary
New Brunswick Theological Seminary is a seminary of the Reformed Church in America (RCA), a mainline Protestant denomination in Canada and the United States that follows the theological tradition and Christian practice of John Calvin. It was fo ...
.
Alumni Catalogue of New York University, 1833-1905: College, Applied Science and Honorary Alumni
'. (New York: General Alumni Society of New York University, 1906), 8.
Fortieth Anniversary of the Inauguration of the Rev. S. M. Woodbridge, D.D., LL.D., as Professor in the Theological Seminary of the Reformed (Dutch) Church in America at New Brunswick, 1857-1897
'. (New Brunswick, New Jersey: New Brunswick Theological Seminary Alumni Association, 1897), 4.
It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1982 as the South Bushwick Reformed Protestant Dutch Church Complex.
See also
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List of New York City Landmarks
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Churches completed in 1853
Dutch-American culture in New York City
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