Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Flatbush (New York City, New York)

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890 Flatbush Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11226
(718) 284-5140
www.facebook.com/FlatbushReformedChurch

Centuries old Dutch church and graveyard. The first building on the site was constructed around 1654-1662, complete with stockade fence to protect the Dutch from marauding Indians, but the building seen today was completed in 1796. The graveyard is filled with crumbling gravestones inscribed in Dutch. Author H.P. Lovecraft collected a piece of one of these gravestones during a visit here on September 16, 1922, and was inspired to write his short story "The Hound" by the visit. The church retains its original bell, which has rung for the funerals of every U.S. president and vice president since George Washington. American Revolutionary War soldiers who died in the Battle of Brooklyn are buried underneath the building. The church houses several original Tiffany stained glass windows.