Brick Presbyterian Church Complex, now known as

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, is a historic

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church Church may refer to: Religion * Church (building), a place/building for Christian religious activities and praying * Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination * Church service, a formalized period of Christian comm ...

complex located at Rochester in

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. The complex includes the Brick Church and Church School (1860, rebuilt 1903), attached Brick Church Institute building (1909–1910), and Taylor Chapel (1941). The Brick Church and Church School was designed in 1860 as an Early Romanesque Revival–style edifice by Rochester architect

Andrew Jackson Warner Andrew Jackson Warner (March 17, 1833 – September 4, 1910), also known as A. J. Warner, was a prominent architect in Rochester, New York. Early life Warner was born in New Haven, Connecticut on March 17, 1833, a son of Amos Warner Jr. and ...

(1833–1910). His son,

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(1859–1937), modified the church structure to the Lombard Romanesque form in 1903. ''See also:'' It was listed on the

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in 1992.

References

External links

Downtown Presbyterian website
Churches in Rochester, New York Presbyterian churches in New York (state) 19th-century Presbyterian church buildings in the United States Churches completed in 1860 Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) National Register of Historic Places in Rochester, New York Romanesque Revival church buildings in New York (state) Brick buildings and structures in the United States 1860 establishments in New York (state) Brick churches {{NewYork-Presbyterian-church-stub