Brick Presbyterian Church Complex
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N 43° 09.464 W 077° 36.977
18T E 287292 N 4781654
also known as Downtown Presbyterian Church, 121 N Fitzhugh St, Rochester, NY
Waymark Code: WMDABK
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 12/13/2011
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The first paragraph of the History page of the DUPC website, we learn the history of the first congregations and buildings (
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"The Downtown United Presbyterian Church was formed in January, 1974 from three historic churches, First, Brick and Central Presbyterian Churches. In 1815, Hannah Scrantom and Julia Wheelock started religious services in Rochesterville. In 1817, the First Presbyterian Church occupied a small, wood-framed building on what is now State St. In 1823, they inhabited a stone structure on S. Fitzhugh and then an edifice on S. Plymouth Ave in 1871. In 1825, a group left First Church to form the Second Presbyterian Church occupying the former First Church building on State. St. By 1828, they had built a Brick Church on N. Fitzhugh. In 1860 they built a new sanctuary on the same site which was rebuilt in 1904, and is our present building. In 1836, a group left First Church to form the Bethel Presbyterian Church on Washington St. They then built a new building on N. Plymouth in 1858 and named it Central Church. The large sanctuary/auditorium was completed in 1891. "
from the NRHP nomination form (
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"The Brick Church Institue building (1909-10) adjoins the south end of the church school wing and extends the full depth of ht elot from Fitzhug Street to Montgomer Street. The Taylor Chapel (1941) was built within the former open court defined by the church, church school and teh Brick Church Institute. The four-story Brick Church Institute building was designed to house the church offices and to provide facilities for community activities and recreation. Th upper two stories originally contained single room occupancy unity, rented at minimal coast to inner city residents unable to afford other housing. The upper stories are in a four-pronged E-Shaped plan open to the south, providing natural light and ventilation to each room.
"The institute building is spare in architectural detail; the greatest elaboration is found on the Fitzhugh Street facade, which is given a domestic, Georgian Revival styling emphasized by a shallow, gabled roof above this portion of the otherwise flat-roofed building."