English Evangelical Lutheran Church of Dansville, also known as Saint Paul's Lutheran Church, is a historic

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located at Dansville in

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. It was built in 1847, and is a one-story, late

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style frame church. It has a front gable roof with a wide frieze and features rounded arched windows and a two-tiered steeple. An education wing was added in 1924 and expanded in the 1950s, and a projecting entrance was added in 1947. It was the church where

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founded the first local chapter of the

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in 1881. ''Note:'' This includes an
''Accompanying photographs''
/ref> It was listed on the

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in 2013.

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