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Colt's Neck Reformed Church
Colt's Neck, Monmouth County

This is apparently the last of the Greek revival churches built to this
plan in the state, as it was erected in 1856. The plan, with minor variations
in the steeple and pediment, was used by more than a dozen surviving
churches in the state, most of which were located in Somerset County.
Ebenezer Goltra of Long Branch was the builder, a name that comes up
in connection with several churches in Somerset County. The steeple
once was much taller, but, like many others in the state, a victim of
repeated lightning, it was shortened in 1900.
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