St. John's Episcopal Church
The National Park Service has not published a boundary polygon for this district; the map shows the listed properties inside it and the district's reference point.
Why it's listed
This church complex in the village of Mount Morris, Livingston County, includes a brick Gothic Revival church built in 1857, a frame parsonage, and the graves of the church's principal benefactors, John Rodgers Murray and Anna Vernon Olyphant Murray. The church, designed by W. Hamlin and built by W. Hinman, has a nave and chancel plan, buttressed walls, a steep patterned slate roof, stained glass windows, and an engaged corner bell tower with a spire. Its design reflects ecclesiology movement ideas promoted in America by architects such as Richard Upjohn. The parsonage is a one-and-one-half-story Carpenter Gothic house with scroll-sawn vergeboards, built from plans in a pattern book by Cleveland and the Backus brothers. The complex was listed for its architecture. The church remains largely intact, and together the buildings and gravesite document the village's nineteenth-century growth and the Murray family's support of the parish.
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| Period of significance | 1857, 1867, 1878, 1881 |
|---|---|
| Styles | Gothic Revival; Carpenter Gothic |
| Areas of significance | Architecture |
| Acreage | 1.2 |
| Boundary source | not published |
| Full listing page | St. John's Episcopal Church (property record) |
What listing means for this property
This is a historic district. Buildings within its boundary are either contributing (they add to the district's significance) or non-contributing. Owners of contributing income-producing buildings can claim the 20% federal rehabilitation tax credit; homeowners should look at state credits. National Register districts impose no design review by themselves; a local historic district ordinance, if one exists, does (the difference explained).
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