New Lots Reformed Dutch Church and Cemetery located at 630 New Lots Avenue in East New York, Brooklyn, New York was built in 1823–1824 and is a small, rectangular wood-frame building sheathed in clapboard. It has a pitched gable roof and sits on a rough stone foundation. Adjacent to the church is the cemetery divided into two sections. The older section dates to the 17th century and includes burials of Revolutionary War soldiers and slaves. The present cemetery was established in 1841. The cemetery is one of only a handful of private cemeteries left in the entire city.
At the time the church was built, New Lots was a small community surrounded by farms. It was part of Flatbush, and got its name from being the location of the new lots of land available for settlement. This was not a town of wealthy merchants; these were farmers, without a lot of money. A hurricane, which knocked down a great number of oak trees provided the wood for the church. Parishioners harvested the trees, and then allowed them to season for almost two years, before cutting the lumber into boards in preparation to build a new church.
In May of 1823, people from near and far came to build the new church in a massive barn raising. These volunteers worked tirelessly to build the church building, which was put up by their efforts alone, and is reported to have cost only $35.00. The entire building is built with notched and joined timber, using wooden pegs to secure the wood, not nails. That craftsmanship has lasted in its original form for almost two hundred years.
The only structural changes to the building occurred in 1990, when the building finally began to lean. A large truss beam cracked causing the building to be declared unusable until it was fixed. The congregation raised the money to fix the damage, and the church was back in use in 1991.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.