Spencerport Methodist Church, also known as Spencerport United Methodist Church, is a historic
Methodist
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located at
Spencerport in
Monroe County,
New York
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. It is a
Romanesque style, three- by seven-bay church building constructed of brick on a foundation of
Medina sandstone
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. Initially constructed in 1870–1871, the interior was updated in 1909 to the
Akron Plan
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precepts for church design.
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It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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in 2008.
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Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Methodist churches in New York (state)
Romanesque Revival architecture in New York (state)
Churches completed in 1871
19th-century Methodist church buildings in the United States
Churches in Monroe County, New York
Akron Plan church buildings
National Register of Historic Places in Monroe County, New York
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