Greenpoint Reformed Church

Greenpoint Reformed Church

Greenpoint Reformed Church is a church at 136 Milton Street in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.

Its fireplace tilework includes historic porcelain plaques depicting Robert Fulton and Robert Livingston. According to a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Union Porcelain Factory in Greenpoint probably manufactured the plaques in the 1870s.cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/nyregion/07fulton.html?ref=nyregion
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External links

* [http://greenpointchurch.org/building Greenpoint Church] , the church's webpage about the building


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