555-559 Bedford Rd., Pocantico Hills, New York. County/parish: Westchester.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 06, 2002. NRIS 02000447.
2 contributing buildings.
Union Church of Pocantico Hills is a historic, nondenominational church in Pocantico Hills, New York, welcoming all for weekly Sunday services in the Christian tradition at 10:00 am ET. The church was built by John D. Rockefeller Jr. in 1921, as part of his plans to develop the town of Pocantico Hills, which was below his estate Kykuit. Upon the death of Rockefeller's wife Abby Aldrich Rockefeller in 1948, their son Nelson Rockefeller commissioned Henri Matisse to design the church's rose window in honor of her memory shortly before the artist's own death in 1954. When John D. Rockefeller Jr. died in 1960, his children commissioned artist Marc Chagall to design a Good Samaritan window in his honor. It is a one-story neo-Gothic style building with fieldstone foundation and walls and a slate covered, highly pitched gable roof. In 1930–1931, a parish hall was added to the east end of the church.
On May 6, 2006, the church was listed in the National Register of Historic Places. For more information about the living, growing Church with a Choir and a Sunday School, https://unionchurchph.org/.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75323271