Talk:Monsey Church

Architecture
I removed the Architecture section for the time being ... too technical and hard to document. To revisit in future, I hope.

Architecture
Built in 1869, the Monsey Church building is an example of the Greek Revival style that was popular in much of the United States throughout the early 1800s. It is rectangular and front-gabled, with a medium-pitched roof. Originally of white clapboard construction, the exterior is now white aluminum in a clapboard style. The front door surround consists of symmetrical pilasters, and an entablature of bracketed cornice and frieze. There is a lunette with radial muntins in the tympanum.

The building also incorporates elements of the Italianate style that was increasingly popular at the time of construction. There are prominent brackets under the eaves and the front door and belfry cornices. There is a square, flat-roofed belfry, each side of which has a round-arched sound opening with downward-pointing louvers, surrounded by two pairs of pilasters supporting an entablature consisting of a frieze and bracketed cornice. Other than the additional pilaster on each side of a sound opening, the pilasters and entablature match the surround on the front door. On either side of the front door are two long rectangular 20-over-20 sash windows, and both lateral sides of the building have three sets of the same. Pwdennis2 (talk) 13:51, 22 October 2011 (UTC)

I would like to add a section on relations with the Jewish Community. I have a quotation from the Rev. John Rozendal, who worked in Monsey in the late-40s (page 28 of Van Halsema's 1955 history), and some correspondence from the late spring of 1979 in which the church complained about a large rally/demonstration by Jews that effectively shut down Main Street and prevented the church from worshiping on a Sunday morning. --Pwdennis2 (talk) 14:22, 31 August 2011 (UTC)