Lattingtown Baptist Church
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Lattingtown Baptist Church is a historic Baptist
Baptist
Baptists comprise a group of Christian denominations and churches that subscribe to a doctrine that baptism should be performed only for professing believers , and that it must be done by immersion...

 church located at Lattingtown
Marlborough, New York
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, Ulster County, New York
Ulster County, New York
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. The meeting house
Meeting house
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 form building was built about 1810 during the Federal
Federal architecture
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 period. It is a two story, heavy timber frame structure with queen post and purlin roof framing. It was extensively renovated during the 19th century to add an eclectic blend of Gothic
Gothic Revival architecture
The Gothic Revival is an architectural movement that began in the 1740s in England...

 and picturesque-inspired elements. Also on the property is the church cemetery
Cemetery
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, with burials dating to 1817; privy
Outhouse
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; and stone walls.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
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in 2010.
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