Division Avenue (84th Avenue) in North Richmond Hill (today's Kew Gardens), NY. The Amos Aller house is on the right.
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"The story of Union Congregational Church has its beginning in the days
when Richmond Hill was a peaceful country village, over sixty years before
the "atomic age." The records tell us that "on the evening of Monday,
September 29, 1884, a few ladies and gentlemen met at the house of Mr.
Amos Aller to consider the advisability of providing Richmond Hill with
some kind of religious services together with a Sunday School which might
be, as near as possible, non-sectarian in character. It had long been
felt to be the one thing needful in this otherwise charming place."
Raymond C. Hauser & George F. Hagerman, "The Story of Union Congregational
Church", p. 6 (Pilgrim Press 1947).
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