Two institutions that between them total 594 years stand across the street from each other in Flatbush. The Flatbush Reformed Church was founded in 1654, its current church building was constructed beginning in 1796, and the oldest stone in its cemetery goes back to 1754. Erasmus Hall, meanwhile, was founded in 1786, with its present castellated structure, completed in 1906, surrounding its original 18th-Century school building.
In this photo, Erasmus Hall lords it over the cemetery like a Medieval-era fortified tower.
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