The Lincoln Highway (old U.S. 30) through Coatesville is a compendium of the architectural styles of the industrial age, with Victorian row buildings and handsome Richardsonian Romanesque banks vying for attention with Beaux-Arts and Colonial Revival buildings of the early twentieth century. Modern buildings prove Coatesville's economic vitality rode on the strength of old industry into the 1970s. In emphasizing the style of the moment they contrast with the vernacular architecture of villages in the southwest corner of the county and link these industrial towns to the center of the industrial culture in Philadelphia. As a result, most of the institutions are the works of Philadelphia architects. Thus, the Episcopal Church of the Holy Trinity of 1894 at 379 Lincoln Highway East is by a minor English-born architect, George W. Nattress, who designed numerous Episcopal churches in Philadelphia, and Thomas P. Lonsdale designed the Presbyterian church and adjacent parsonage at 323 Lincoln Highway East in 1891.
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