Union Meeting House (Cape Vincent, New York)

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 to 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]

Union Meeting House
LocationMillens Bay Rd., Cape Vincent (town), New York
Coordinates44°10′19″N 76°14′32″W
Arealess than one acre
Built1869
MPSCape Vincent Town and Village MRA
NRHP reference No.85002479[1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 27, 1985

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1]

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. Cape Vincent Chamber of Commerce, Community Organizations (2020). "Cape Vincent Chamber of Commerce". Cape Vincent Chamber of Commerce. Retrieved August 2, 2020.
  3. Child, Hamilton (1890). Horton, William (ed.). "Geograpical Gazetteer of Jefferson County, N.Y. 1684-1890. p.317". Google Books. Syracuse NY: The Syracuse Journal Company. p. 317. Retrieved August 2, 2020.
  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.


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