United Methodist Church of the Highlands | |
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East (front) elevation and south profile, 2008
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Basic information | |
Location | Highland Falls, NY, USA |
Geographic coordinates | 41°22′17″N 73°57′54″W / 41.37139°N 73.96500°W |
Affiliation | United Methodist Church, formerly the Presbyterian Church USA |
Leadership | Rev. Scharlise Dorsey |
Website | United Methodist Church of the Highlands |
Architectural description | |
Architect(s) | Frederick Clarke Withers |
Architectural style | Romanesque Revival |
Completed | 1868 |
Specifications | |
Direction of façade | east |
Spire(s) | 1 |
Materials | Stone |
U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
Added to NRHP | November 23, 1982 |
NRHP Reference no. | 82001216 |
The United Methodist Church of the Highlands, originally First Presbyterian Church of Highland Falls, is located on Main Street in Highland Falls New York, United States. It is a Frederick Clarke Withers building from the 1860s in the Romanesque Revival architectural style.
It was the first church founded in the village. In 1982 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, along with other properties in the Hudson Highlands.
The church is located on the west side of Main Street in downtown Highland Falls, north of Tobin Lane. Across Main and the West Point Highway is the large complex around the United States Military Academy's Thayer Hotel and the parking lot for the West Point Museum. Another church, Sacred Heart, is to the north, with its school to the west. A residential area is to the south.
The building itself is a three-bay blue granite structure with a steep gabled nave. On the east (front) facade is a narthex with an engaged bell tower on the southern end. It is topped with a steeply pitched slate roof, with a corbeled cornice and lancet windows below. The main entrance, a pair of heavy wooden doors in the center of the narthex, is framed by recessed columns with foliated capitals. On a projecting pediment above is a carved datestone.