Talk:United Methodist Church and Parsonage (Mount Kisco, New York)

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I removed the following long passage from the article for discussion here. It is fairly long and lacks statement of its source(s). Is this new writing/paraphrasing from some sources. Please share. I also wonder if this passage shares much with any previous, deleted versions of this article, and if so that would suggest some other questions. doncram (talk) 20:01, 18 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The original center of Mount Kisco, was located at the intersection of Main Street and the road to Bedford Village, was called "New Castle Corners". Both the Episcopal and Methodist churches and their burying grounds were located here. When the railroad reached the area in 1847, it passed through a lowland valley more than a mile away, and a new village center sprang up around the railroad crossing. This new center was given the name Mount Kisco, which was eventually extended to the whole village.
The members of the growing Methodist congregation required a larger church and were faced with the dilemma of either rebuilding at their traditional location in New Castle Corers or move downtown to Mount Kisco. They finally arrived at a compromise, and decided on a site on Main Street halfway between the two centers.
Construction of the new and much larger church was begun in 1866 and completed in 1868. The architects name was King, possibly Gamaliel King of Brooklyn, who designed several churches in New York City. The builder was Edward Dauchey, a member of the congregation.
This High Victorian Gothic building makes the most of the structural and decorative possibilities of wood, from its clapboard siding to the criss-cross brackets under the eaves of its spires. Like many Victorian buildings, the church was painted white in the 20th century. The taller, slate-sheathed spire has been replaced with one of aluminum, 10 feet shorter and much more leak-resistant than the original. Otherwise the building looks much as it did when Mr. Daucher constructed it.