New Hempstead Presbyterian Church  The New Hempstead Presbyterian Church is located at the intersection of New Hempstead (Rockland County Route 80) and Old Schoolhouse roads in New Hemsptead, New York, United States. It is a wood frame Federal style building from the 1820s, the third church on the site. When its congregation was established in 1734, it was the first by a group of English settlers in New York west of the Hudson River. The building is the second oldest extant church in the county. In 1863 a school was built on nearby property and used by the local school district; it later became the oldest continuously-used public school building in the county. In 1977 the church and school, along with some other outbuildings, were listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the English Church and Schoolhouse. The church and its outbuildings are on a lot at the northeast corner of the slightly oblique intersection, just east of New York State Route 45, a half-mile (1 km) west of Palisades Interstate Parkway and just south of New Hempstead Village Hall. There is another large institutional building on the west side of Route 45, and some residences along the south side of New Hempstead Road. The generally flat terrain is wooded, buffering the church and the other institutional buildings in the area from backyards in a nearby residential subdivision to the northeast. Located at the southwest corner of the property, closest to both roads, the church itself is a two-story three-by-three-bay structure sided in clapboard with a gabled roof. There is a one-story addition on the rear (north) end. At the south (front) end, a shingled spire with belfry topped by a weathervane rises. The 12-over-12 double-hung sash windows on the front facade are flanked by louvered wooden shutters. In the center of the attic is a smaller round-arched window with matching shutters. Above it is a small oculus with radial muntins at the gable apex. The two side elevations are fully fenestrated with windows similar to those on the front. A fanlight below an iron lamp surmounts the recessed double doors at the centrally located main entrance. To the east of the church is a two-story wood frame manse. The old schoolhouse is a one-room frame building to the northeast. Its interior is decorated in embossed tin with neoclassical patterns.