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The Hyde Park Reformed Dutch Church

... that New York's Hyde Park Reformed Dutch Church (pictured) secured its original building, a union church, by growing the fastest out of the several denominations that shared it?
... that although the Benjamin Ten Broeck House north of Kingston, New York, was built by Dutch settlers, the layout of one of its additions suggests its residents were Palatine Germans?
... that indoor plumbing was not installed in a former lock tender's cottage on the Delaware and Hudson Canal at High Falls, New York, until the 1960s, over a century after it was built?

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