The kirk on Rutgers farm . The Kirk on Rutgers Farm NorthDutchChurch fessor of languages in the university, aswas also Isaac Heyer. Matthias Bruen was one of the mer-chant princes of New York. Peter Sharpe was a whip manufac-turer and William B. Crosby is listedas gentleman. Nothing is known of the architect orbuilder, tho they were probably thesame, as was the fashion of the time. Thebuilding was required by the deed to beof brick or stone materials, and thewhole building of a size not lessthan that of the Presbyterian churchin Rutgers Street. A hundredyears have proven the substantialcharact
The kirk on Rutgers farm . The Kirk on Rutgers Farm NorthDutchChurch fessor of languages in the university, aswas also Isaac Heyer. Matthias Bruen was one of the mer-chant princes of New York. Peter Sharpe was a whip manufac-turer and William B. Crosby is listedas gentleman. Nothing is known of the architect orbuilder, tho they were probably thesame, as was the fashion of the time. Thebuilding was required by the deed to beof brick or stone materials, and thewhole building of a size not lessthan that of the Presbyterian churchin Rutgers Street. A hundredyears have proven the substantialcharacter of the Market Streetchurch. The men of that day didtheir work well. Whether it wasa simplified copy of the NorthDutch church or not is notknown. It looks much likeit, tho the tower is simpler 24. The Kirk on Rutgers Farm and the two rows of windows in the Ful-ton Street building become one row ofgreat windows on Henry Street. But ithas all stood the test of time. The oldhand-hewn oak timbers still span the loftyceiling, the glistening gray stone wallsstill stand four-square against all thewinds that blow. The hand-made hingesand numbers are still on the pew doors,and the so-called slave galleries are stillthere, tho neither colored servants school children are consignedto them now. Hidden away, but stillthere are the hand-made laths, the shinglesunder the tin roof and the four-footthick foundations. The old tower is there, for many yearsuntenanted, until the men came whoworked and lived there, a place of se-clusion in a busy time and neigh-borhood, and if the symbols on therough walls have made their thoughtsroam to the early Christian days the 2S The Kirk on Rutgers Farm telephone brings them back again into1919. The years have brought some changes;better heating t
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