A succession of Congregational Church buildings have stood on the same spot in East Hampton. The congregation was established in 1746 as the Third Society of East Middletown (the Second Society was in Middle Haddam, now the Second Congregational Church of East Hampton). East Middletown later became Chatham, which later became the towns of Portland and East Hampton. The first church building was constructed in 1755 and the second a century later. This church was destroyed by fire in 1941 and the current church, built in the same Greek Revival style as its predecessor, was completed in 1948.
The Congregational Church of East Hampton (1948)