Chapel Hill Bible Church | |
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South profile and east elevation, 2009
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Basic information | |
Location | Marlboro, NY, USA |
Geographic coordinates | 41°35′11″N 73°59′40″W / 41.58639°N 73.99444°W |
Affiliation | [Non-denominational |
Year consecrated | 1860 |
Leadership | Pastor Frank Minutolo |
Website | Chapel Hill Bible Church |
Architectural style | Picturesque |
Specifications | |
Direction of façade | east |
Materials | Wood, stone, concrete, asphalt, glass and brick |
U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
Added to NRHP | January 7, 2005 |
NRHP Reference no. | 04001450 |
Chapel Hill Bible Church, formerly Amity Baptist Church, is a Baptist house of worship located off Bingham Road near Marlboro, New York, United States. It is a small wooden building in the Picturesque mode of the Gothic Revival architectural style dating to the mid-19th century. In 2005 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is the southernmost property on the Register in Ulster County.
It was originally built not on its present site but in what is now midtown Manhattan, for a congregation that had split off from another church downtown. In the early 20th century, after it had fallen into disuse, a prominent member of the original congregation who had moved up to Marlboro had the church disassembled and moved to property he owned on a hilltop overlooking the Hudson River. For two decades it was used for retreats by the Brotherhood of the Kingdom, a group of Social Gospel advocates. After another period of disuse later in the century, the current church was organized there in the 1970s.
The church property is a 12.5-acre (5.1 ha) parcel on the west side of an unpaved driveway off the south side of Bingham Road in the southern section of the Town of Marlborough, roughly a mile and a half (3 km) southwest of the town's major settlement, the unincorporated hamlet of Marlboro. It is just west of the top of a 500-foot (150 m) hill, and 200 feet (61 m) north of the Orange County line.