Rocky Run Methodist Church is a historic

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. It was built in 1857, and is a one-story, frame

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style building. It has a two-room plan consisting of a narrow narthex and a nave. The front facade features a Roman Doric distyle pedimented porch, which frames the paired, four panel door church entrance. Also on the property is a contributing

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and church

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. an
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in 1995.

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