First Unitarian Church - Cortland, NY
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The cobblestone First Unitarian Church is located at 3 Church Street in Clinton, NY
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Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 02/28/2023
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Unitarianism is a theological movement whose fundamental tenet is the belief that God is a single person as opposed to the more prevalent Christian dogma that God is a Trinity composed of the God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Unitarians believe that the teachings of Jesus were inspired by this singular God and Jesus is not an incarnated deity. In the United States, the Unitarian theology began in Boston, MA in 1784 and spread from New England. Many prominent Americans were Unitarians, including Presidents John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Millard Fillmore, and William Howard Taft; also poet Ralph Waldo Emerson, architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and women's rights leader Susan B. Anthony. (
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The two story high, three bay wide, First Unitarian Church is known as the "The Old Cobblestone Church," It was built in 1837 of cobblestones with granite quoins. A set of steps leads up top a central red door entrance which is framed under a gable roof and recessed behind a series of three congruent Doric piasters. Flanking the entrance are a pair of stained glass windows. On the upper level are three windows with louvered windows,
Rising from the gable roof is a two stage steeple with a hip roof. The lower stage is a square tower and the upper stage is a belfry with rounded louvered windows flanked by piasters.
The sides are four bays wide with rectangular windows on the lower level and louvered windows on the upper level. The north side has a projecting auxiliary entrance between the second and third bays.
The First Unitarian Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. (
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