"Postcard showing the New Lots Reformed Church and cemetery on New Lots Road (now New Lots Avenue) and Schenck Avenue in the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York."

Constructed in 1823-1824, the wood-frame clapboard structure sits on a rough stone base. The community of New Lots was a large and humble farming community in the early part of the 19th century. The wood used for construction was cut from a vast number of oak trees that fell during a hurricane in the early 1820s. Construction of the structure was undertaken by the local community using notched and joined timber, and wooden pegs instead of nails.

Similar to most churches built in the city before the 1840s, the New Lots Church has an attached cemetery. The cemetery is separated into two sections. The older section dates to the 18th century and includes graves of the Van Siclen family who donated the land for the church. The newer section was established in 1841 and continues to be an active place of burial today. It is one of only a few private cemeteries left in the entire city.