First Presbyterian Church is a historic

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located at La Grange,

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. It was built in 1848, and is a one-story, temple front,

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style, red brick building on a raised basement. It has a gabled roof with an unadorned wood raked cornice and a pediment on the symmetrical façade. (includes 5 photographs from 2011) It was listed on the

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in 2012.

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