Hyde Park Reformed Dutch Church

Hyde Park Dutch Reformed Church is located on US 9 in the center of Hyde Park, New York, United States, just north of the post office and the junction with Market Street at the center of town. It is a complex of several buildings on a 2acre lot.The congregation traces its roots to a union church established in the community in 1789. It was formally organized within the Dutch Reformed Church three years later. The main church building was constructed in 1826 in the Federal style. In 1993 it, the church cemetery, parsonage and lecture hall were added to the National Register of Historic Places.PropertyThere are five buildings and the church cemetery on the lot, a flat grassy area with some tall trees. The cemetery and three of the buildings are considered contributing resources to the listing.ChurchThe main church building is a two-story, three-bay frame building on a slightly exposed stone basement. It is sided in clapboard with an asphalt-shingled gabled roof topped by a four-story blunt steeple on the western (front) elevation. The northeast corner is pierced by a brick chimney.