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FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

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1906–1907, R. H. Hunt; 1962 addition, Godfrey and Bassett. 1501 Cherry St.

Built of Indiana limestone, this austere Romanesque Revival church dominates its corner site with square corner towers of different heights flanking a central triple-arched porch and a rose window. The auditorium-plan sanctuary’s beamed and domed ceiling hovers over curving pews facing the central pulpit and an Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ, installed in 1966. The Sunday school rear addition (1962) is a modernist design with an arcaded roof carried on a rusticated stone base.

At 1420 Cherry is Theodore C. Link’s classical Blum House (1902–1903), and at 1440 Cherry is the Shingle Style Adolph Rose House (1902; later the YWCA). The twin-towered Gothic Revival Crawford Street Methodist Church (1926, Spencer and Phillips, with W. A. Stanton supervising) is at 900 Crawford Street.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH", [Vicksburg, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-YB20.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 79-80.

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