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Union Church of Pocantico Hills
Historic church in New York, United States From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Union Church of Pocantico Hills is a historic, nondenominational church in Pocantico Hills, New York, welcoming all for weekly Sunday services in the Christian tradition at 10:00 am ET. The church was built by John D. Rockefeller Jr. in 1921, as part of his plans to develop the town of Pocantico Hills, which was below his estate Kykuit.[2] Upon the death of Rockefeller's wife Abby Aldrich Rockefeller in 1948, their son Nelson Rockefeller commissioned Henri Matisse to design the church's rose window in honor of her memory shortly before the artist's own death in 1954.[2] When John D. Rockefeller Jr. died in 1960, his children commissioned artist Marc Chagall to design a Good Samaritan window in his honor.[2] It is a one-story neo-Gothic style building with fieldstone foundation and walls and a slate covered, highly pitched gable roof. In 1930–1931, a parish hall was added to the east end of the church.[3]
On May 6, 2006, the church was listed in the National Register of Historic Places.[4] For more information about the living, growing Church with a Choir and a Sunday School, https://unionchurchph.org/.
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David Rockefeller, members of the Rockefeller family, and members of the church commissioned organbuilder Sebastian M. Glück to design and build the Laurance Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Pipe Organ in 2006. It is based upon the organs of fin-de-siècle Paris, notably influenced by the work of Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, and it complements the family's taste in the art of that era. It is used for public recitals as well as for church services.
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