A silvery, egg-shaped dome caps the open bell tower of this two-story building with a second-story balcony under a Neoclassical pediment supported by paired Ionic columns. Built of Silverton's distinctive local rosy-purple sandstone, it was restored in the 1970s, then re-restored after a Thanksgiving weekend fire in 1992 caused by a heating system that kept snow off the roof. The
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