By Jude Firpo-Cappiello– The Shiloh Baptist Church, located on North Washington Street in Tarrytown, recently received a $12,000 grant through the Sacred Sites Program of the New York Landmarks Conservancy. The funds will allow the church, which is one of the oldest historically black churches in the Hudson Valley, to complete repairs to the exterior of the building. Originally constructed as an opera house in 1884 by Henry T. Smith, owner of a local newspaper, the Tarrytown Herald, the building […]
