Union Church of Pocantico Hills, Sleepy Hollow

#1 among attractions in Sleepy Hollow

Church, Gothic Revival architecture

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Union Church of Pocantico Hills is a historic church in Pocantico Hills, New York. The church was built by John D. Rockefeller Jr. in 1921, as part of his plans to develop the town of Pocantico Hills, which was below his estate Kykuit. Upon the death of Rockefeller's wife Abby Aldrich Rockefeller in 1948, their son Nelson Rockefeller had Henri Matisse design the church's rose window in honor of her memory shortly before the artist's own death in 1954. When John D. Rockefeller Jr. died in 1960, his children had artist Marc Chagall design a Good Samaritan window in his honor. It is a one-story neo-Gothic style building with fieldstone foundation and walls and a slate covered, highly pitched gable roof. In 1930–1931, a parish hall was added to the east end of the church. ()

Coordinates: 41°5'44"N, 73°49'56"W

Address

555 Bedford RdSleepy Hollow United States

Contact

+1 914-631-2069

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Union Church of Pocantico Hills – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Tarrytown Music Hall, Kensico Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow Country Club, Jacob Burns Film Center.

1.9 miSW
Music venue, Queen Anne architecture
Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown
50 min walk • The Music Hall, in Tarrytown, New York, United States, is located on West Main Street downtown. It is a brick structure in the Queen Anne architectural style erected in the late 19th century.
2.8 miSE
Cemetery
Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla
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2.4 miNW
Sport, Sport venue
Sleepy Hollow Country Club, Briarcliff Manor
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3.4 miNE
Cinema, Nightlife
Jacob Burns Film Center, Chappaqua
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1.9 miSW
Church
Foster Memorial AME Zion Church, Tarrytown
49 min walk • The Foster Memorial AME Zion Church is located on Wildey Street in Tarrytown, New York, United States. Formed in 1860, it is the oldest black church in Westchester County and possibly one of the oldest in the state.
1.8 miSW
Church
Reformed Church of the Tarrytowns, Tarrytown
47 min walk • The Reformed Church of the Tarrytowns in Tarrytown, New York, serves both Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow, New York. It was constructed in 1837 as an extension of the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow to serve the Tarrytown community.
0.8 miSW
Rockefeller mansion with an art gallery
Kykuit, Palisades
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1.6 miW
Church
Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow, Sleepy Hollow
41 min walk • The Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow, listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Dutch Reformed Church, is a 17th-century stone church located on Albany Post Road in Sleepy Hollow, New York, United States.
1.4 miW
Cemetery
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow
37 min walk • Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York, is the final resting place of numerous famous figures, including Washington Irving, whose 1820 short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is set in the adjacent burying ground at the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow.
2 miSW
Church
First Baptist Church of Tarrytown, Tarrytown
51 min walk • The First Baptist Church of Tarrytown is located on South Broadway in Tarrytown, New York, United States. It is a stone building in the Victorian Gothic architectural style dating to the 1870s. In 1983 it and its rectory were listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
2.7 miN
Modernist architecture
Julian Street Jr. residence, Briarcliff Manor
70 min walk • The Julian Street Jr. residence is an early Modernist fieldstone house in Briarcliff Manor, New York. The house was designed by the New York architect Wallace K. Harrison for Julian Street Jr. and his wife, Narcissa, in 1938.