Brookville Presbyterian Church and Manse is a historic

Presbyterian Presbyterianism is a part of the Reformed tradition within Protestantism that broke from the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland by John Knox, who was a priest at St. Giles Cathedral (Church of Scotland). Presbyterian churches derive their nam ...

church Church may refer to: Religion * Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities * Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination * Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship * Chris ...

located at White and Main Streets in Brookville, Jefferson County,

Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...

United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...

. The church was built in 1904–1905, and is a

Richardsonian Romanesque Richardsonian Romanesque is a style of Romanesque Revival architecture named after the American architect Henry Hobson Richardson (1838–1886). The revival style incorporates 11th and 12th century southern French, Spanish, and Italian Romanesque ...

-style building built of Hummelstown brownstone.Advertising Booklet published by the Hummelstown Brownstone Co., p.45 circa 1907 It features two entrances, each set in a

loggia In architecture, a loggia ( , usually , ) is a covered exterior gallery or corridor, usually on an upper level, but sometimes on the ground level of a building. The outer wall is open to the elements, usually supported by a series of columns ...

, and a square

bell tower A bell tower is a tower that contains one or more bells, or that is designed to hold bells even if it has none. Such a tower commonly serves as part of a Christian church, and will contain church bells, but there are also many secular bell tower ...

. The interior is designed in the

Akron plan The Akron Plan was a scheme for the design of churches and other religious buildings that housed Sunday schools. It was characterized by a set of wedge-shaped classrooms that radiated from the direction of a central superintendent's platform. Do ...

. The

manse A manse () is a clergy house inhabited by, or formerly inhabited by, a minister, usually used in the context of Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist and other Christian traditions. Ultimately derived from the Latin ''mansus'', "dwelling", from '' ...

was built in 1890, and is a brick

Second Empire Second Empire may refer to: * Second British Empire, used by some historians to describe the British Empire after 1783 * Second Bulgarian Empire (1185–1396) * Second French Empire (1852–1870) ** Second Empire architecture, an architectural styl ...

-style dwelling. It features two, 2-story bay windows; a

mansard roof A mansard or mansard roof (also called a French roof or curb roof) is a four-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterised by two slopes on each of its sides, with the lower slope, punctured by dormer windows, at a steeper angle than the upper. The ...

; and an open porch. ''Note:'' This includes It was added to the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 1982. It is located in the Brookville Historic District. File:Brookville Presbyterian Church Manse Nov 09.jpg, Brookville Presbyterian Church Manse, November 2009 File:Brookville PA Presby Ch PHS086.jpg, Church in a pre-1923 postcard

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Brookville Presbyterian Church And Manse Presbyterian churches in Pennsylvania Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Richardsonian Romanesque architecture in Pennsylvania Romanesque Revival church buildings in Pennsylvania Second Empire architecture in Pennsylvania Churches completed in 1890 19th-century Presbyterian church buildings in the United States Churches in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania Akron Plan church buildings National Register of Historic Places in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania Historic district contributing properties in Pennsylvania