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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 384

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[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] 1835, and the building was completed in 1842, the consecration services being conducted by the Right Rev. Benjamin Trcdwell Onderdonk, on the 19th of January of that year, with Isaac Purdy and Fred. J. Coffin as church wardens, and Thad-deus Barlow, Aaron Brown, William Marshall, Gerard Crane, Edwin Finch, Charles Wright, William Clock and Ray Tompkins as vestrymen. The church building is a plain, substantial edifice of wood, stand-ing on a basement of dressed stone, located centrally in one acre of ground, which was purchased of Horace Bailey. Its location is near the junction of the West or Peekskill road with the Croton turn-pike or Sing Sing road. The front of the build-ing presents a fine portico, with dressed stone floor 496 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY. and steps, and roof supported by four lofty Ionic columns. Upon the top is a square belfry. The in-terior is neatly frescoed and ornamented with appro-