West Kortright Centre

	West Kortright Presbyterian Church
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	49 W. Kortright Church Rd., East Meredith, New York
Coordinates	42°24′8″N 74°51′8″W / 42.40222°N 74.85222°W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1850
Architectural style	Greek Revival with Gothic Revival accents
Website	https://westkc.org/
NRHP reference No.	02001326
Added to NRHP	November 15, 2002

Location49 W. Kortright Church Rd., East Meredith, New York

Coordinates42°24′8″N 74°51′8″W / 42.40222°N 74.85222°W

Arealess than one acre

Built1850

The West Kortright Center is a non-profit arts and community center in Delaware County, New York, United States. Prior to 1975, the building housed the West Kortright Presbyterian Church. The building was constructed in 1850 and substantially remodeled in the 1890s.

In 1975, local residents worked to repurpose the Greek Revival West Kortright Presbyterian Church, with its late Victorian stained glass windows, kerosene chandeliers, curved pews and woodwork. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places and became a National Historic Landmark in 2002.^[2]

In addition to hosting musical and theatrical performers from a variety of genres, the WKC offers garden tours, exhibits from local visual artists, and arts and crafts workshops in subjects such as basket weaving, stone wall restoration, and creative writing.^[3]

In 1987, writer and director Nancy Fales Garrett founded the Shakespeare in the Valley summer program, which teaches acting and theater tech skills to children and teenagers.^[4]^[5]

Artists presented at the West Kortright Center since 1975 have included:^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]

Composers

Poets

Bluegrass, country, and roots musicians

Traditional musicians

Jazz performers

Folk musicians

Blues musicians

Monologists

Paul Zaloom

International performers

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