Grace Methodist Church Complex

2895 NY 8, Speculator, New York. County/parish: Hamilton.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places February 12, 2015. NRIS 15000006.

2 contributing buildings.

Also known as:

  • Grace United Methodist Church

From Wikipedia:

Grace Methodist Church Complex

Grace Methodist Church Complex, also known as Mountain Community Methodist Church, is a historic Methodist church complex located at Speculator, Hamilton County, New York. The church was built in 1909 and is a compact Gothic Revival style frame church. It has an engaged bell tower and a concrete block Sunday School wing added in 1957. The front facade features three symmetrically placed Gothic-arched windows. The parsonage was built in 1928, and is a two-story wood-frame building with a gambrel roof and dormers in the Dutch Colonial Revival style.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. Alongside the Methodist church in nearby Lake Pleasant, The church is part of a two-point parish called Mountain Community Methodist Church. The church disaffiliated from the United Methodist Church in 2024 and is part of the Global Methodist Church.

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