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Religious Site Attractions In Pocantico Hills

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Pocantico Hills is a hamlet in the Westchester County town of Mount Pleasant, New York, northeast of the village of Sleepy Hollow and southwest of the village of Pleasantville, in the United States. The area was originally settled by Native Americans of the Wecquaesgeek tribes; Pocantico means running between two hills, and the name is a reference to the meandering Pocantico River. Nestled between the Hudson River on the west and the Saw Mill River Parkway on the east, one finds pristine woodlands, brooks, 1,000 acres of hiking trails, and nature walks an hour's drive from downtown Manhattan. The Rockefeller family estate, anchored by Kykuit, the famil...
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Religious Site Attractions In Pocantico Hills

1. Union Church of Pocantico Hills Pocantico Hills
Union Church of Pocantico Hills is a historic church located at 555-559 Bedford Road in Pocantico Hills, New York. 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. Upon the death of Rockefeller's wife Abby Aldrich Rockefeller in 1948, their son Nelson Rockefeller had Henri Matisse design the church's rose window in honor of her memory shortly before the artist's own death in 1954. When John D. Rockefeller, Jr. died in 1960, his children had artist Marc Chagall design a Good Samaritan window in his honor. 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...
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The Road to Matisse & Chagall- Route 448 Sleepy Hollow, NY

We travel down Route 448 in Tarrytown, New York (sometimes called Sleepy Hollow). We pass by the Union Church of Pocantico Hills, where visitors can enjoy stained glass artwork by master painters Henri Matisse and Marc Chagall.

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To see church's location on map, click #4 here:

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For map of driving route, click on #1 at this link:

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