Crescent Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic

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located in

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. It was built in 1852 and is a rectangular, three-by-five-bay, brick church in a vernacular

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style. It is topped by a shallow-pitched, slate-covered, gable roof. It features a two-stage, flat-roofed, open belfry with

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columns. Attached is a 1-story parish hall wing. ''Note:'' This includes an
''Accompanying four photographs''
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in 2000. Due to its poor condition the church was judged unsafe, and was demolished prior to 2013.

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