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Plymouth Church (Brooklyn)

Plymouth Church is an historic church located at 57 Orange Street between Henry and Hicks Streets in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City; the Church House has the address 75 Hicks Street. The church was built in 1849–50 and was designed by Joseph C. Wells. Under the leadership of its first minister, Henry Ward Beecher, it became the foremost center of anti-slavery sentiment in the mid-19th century.[5] It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1961, and has been a National Historic Landmark since 1966. It is part of the Brooklyn Heights Historic District, created by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1965.

Location

57 Orange Street
Brooklyn, New York

1849-50

July 4, 1961[3]

October 15, 1966[4]

January 12, 1965

List of Underground Railroad sites

Applegate, Debby (2006) The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher New York: Doubleday.  0385513968

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Bibliography

Official website

Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims site on "Aboard the Underground Railroad", National Park Service tour list

Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887), at the Lincoln Institute's Mr. Lincoln and New York

A model of Plymouth Church