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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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