First Reformed Church

First Reformed Church/ First Hispanic Reformed Church

September 26, 1833 -

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~1908
Clinton & Johnson Avenues

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The First Reformed Church was organized on September 26, 1833 in response to a petition drawn up on August 25, 1833 requesting the Classis of Bergen to form the church. Original meetings with Rev Ransford Wells engaged as a missionary were held in Presbyterian Churches and for a time above the Market Building at the corner of Market and Halsey Streets. Later this land was home to an opera house. Property was secured on the corner of Market and Beaver Streets. The cornerstone was laid on July 8, 1834 and the dedication was on May 6, 1835. The original brick front was replaced by a Romanesque facade in brownstone in 1857. In 1893 the church moved to Clinton and Johnson Avenues. Today this church is known as the First Hispanic Reformed Church.

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Reverend	From	To
Ransford Wells	1833	September, 1842
James R. Scott	April 18, 1843	May 10, 1858
Edward P. Terhune	1859	1876
Thomas (William) H. Gleason	1877	1886
Marcus C. Easton	1886	1889
Carlos Martyn	1890	1892
Timothy J. Lee	1893	1905
Stuart Nye Hutchinson	1906	1910
O. M. Trousdale	March 15, 1911	1924
Arthur Lincoln	1924	1926
Philip H. Clifford	1926	1929
Lawrence H. French	1930	1931
Oliver M. Fletcher	1932	1938
Robert B. Cunningham	1940	1943
William P. Green	1949	1953
William T. Iverson	1957	1964
Kenneth P. Rivera	1968	1976
Gabriel Gonzalez	1984

Address	From	To
65,67 Market Street	1833	1835
165, 169 1/2 Market Street	1835	1870
211 Market Street	1871	1893
Clinton & Johnson Avenues	1893

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Further information on this church can be found in:

Historical Directory of the Reformed Church in America
by Russell L. Gasero