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Students restoring iconic church on Hudson River

July 31, 2009 By The Associated Press  MICHAEL HILL (Associated Press Writer)

NEWBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — The Dutch Reformed Church was a proud symbol of this bustling river city in the 19th century.

Looking like a Greek temple lording over the Hudson River from a high bluff, architect Alexander Jackson Davis said his building showed "the taste, discrimination, and sense of classical beauty, of the inhabitants of Newburgh."

More recently, it became a symbol of a struggling...

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