Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Old Dutch Church
— — the small stone church Irving could not stop writing about.
Not only on a wall.
“The church sits low against the Pocantico River in Sleepy Hollow, just north of Tarrytown. Built around 1685 by Frederick Philipse and his wife Catherine Van Cortlandt, it is among the oldest standing churches in New York. The burying ground behind it became the setting for Washington Irving's 1820 tale; Irving himself lies in the larger Sleepy Hollow Cemetery uphill. In November the stones go the colour of the river.
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The Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow stands on the east bank of the Pocantico River in the village of Sleepy Hollow, New York, about thirty miles north of Manhattan in Westchester County. Built around 1685 by Frederick Philipse, the first lord of Philipsburg Manor, and his wife Catherine Van Cortlandt, it is one of the oldest surviving churches in New York State and one of the oldest in the United States. The Reformed Church congregation that built it still owns the building, which sits within the National Historic Landmark district that includes Philipsburg Manor.
The church was raised in fieldstone gathered from the Pocantico valley and bound with shell-lime mortar, with hand-hewn oak timbers framing the roof. Its bell, cast in the Netherlands and inscribed in Latin, has hung since the church's earliest years. The walls run roughly two feet thick. A Dutch-Colonial gambrel roofline replaced an earlier form in the eighteenth century. The building has been continuously maintained by the Reformed Church in America congregation and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961 as part of the Philipsburg Manor complex.
The burying ground behind the church is the setting for Washington Irving's 1820 story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and the village has built its autumn calendar around it. The Historic Hudson Valley non-profit runs evening lantern tours of the cemetery through October, and the Halloween-season Horseman's Hollow event draws tens of thousands of visitors each year. Irving himself, who died in 1859, is buried not in the small church yard but in the larger adjacent Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, where his stone faces north toward the Hudson. The river fog comes in by mid-November.