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First Methodist Episcopal Church, also known as United Methodist Church, is a historic church at 116 East Washington Avenue in
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architectural style. The church was added to the
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for its significance in architecture on July 17, 2017. The parsonage, built in 1892, is also included in the listing.


History

The first building constructed here was a wooden church built in 1825. A fire destroyed it in 1856 and the congregation replaced it with a brick building. In 1895, the brick building was deconstructed to allow construction of the current church.


Description

The church was designed by Samuel A. Brouse in a
Richardsonian Romanesque Richardsonian Romanesque is a architectural style, style of Romanesque Revival architecture named after the American architect Henry Hobson Richardson (1838–1886). The revivalism (architecture), revival style incorporates 11th- and 12th-century ...
architectural style. It is built using green serpentine stone and has pink sandstone accents. The form is asymmetrical, with a round tower on one side and a taller, square bell tower on the other.


Gallery

File:United Methodist Church, Washington, NJ - bell tower.jpg, Bell tower File:United Methodist Church, Washington, NJ - double door entrance.jpg, Double door entrance File:United Methodist Church Parsonage, Washington, NJ.jpg, Parsonage, built 1892


See also

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Warren County, New Jersey List of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Warren County, New Jersey This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Histor ...
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List of Methodist churches in the United States This is a list of Methodist churches in the United States. It includes notable churches either where a church means a congregation (in the New Testament definition) or where a church means a building (in the colloquial sense). It also includ ...


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