Church Street–Congress Street Historic District is a national

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located in the village of

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. The district contains 122

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and one contributing structure. It is primarily a residential district and preserves several intact examples from the village's earliest period of development, 1810–1830. Numerous residential structures date to the 1830–1840 period and are in the

Greek Revival Greek Revival architecture is a architectural style, style that began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe, the United States, and Canada, ...

style. This includes the Federal style Congregational Church (1823). Other churches located in the district are the Romanesque style Baptist Church (1874) and the

Gothic Revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an Architectural style, architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half ...

St. Matthew's Episcopal Church (1897–1898). The district also includes the Powers Library (1880) building and Moravia High School (1924). Includes 26 photos from 1992. It was listed on the

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in 1994. Selected contributing properties are: *U.S. Post Office (1940–41), South Main Street, WPA brick building.Note the Church Street-Congress Street HD document states that the U.S. Post Office on South Main Street in Moravia was separately NRHP-listed in 1991. And there were in fact numerous ones covered in a 1988-approved Multiple Resources study
United States Post Offices in New York State - 1858 to 1943 - Thematic Resources
(written by Larry E. Gobrecht, National Register and Survey Coordinator, New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, December 1986) which were identified as NRHP-eligible and separately listed in subsequent years, and the Moravia one is listed in that document's Appendix IV as presumed or assessed to be eligible for individual NRHP listing, but the Moravia one seems not ever to have been separately NRHP-listed. *St. Matthew's Episcopal Church (1897-1898), 16 Church St. A clapboarded frame church with a corner tower. Has noncontributing church school addition, built c.1960. *Powers Library (1880), with

Romanesque Revival Romanesque Revival (or Neo-Romanesque) is a style of building employed beginning in the mid-19th century inspired by the 11th- and 12th-century Romanesque architecture. Unlike the historic Romanesque style, Romanesque Revival buildings tended t ...

style for its front, brick building *First Congregational Church (1823), now Christ United Methodist Church, Federal in style with three-stage

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*First Baptist Church (1874), 37 Church Street, brick Romanesque Revival building, expanded in 1891 *Jewett Mansion (c.1870), 30 Church Street, Second Empire mansion with c.1870

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*35 Congress Street (1875), Italianate *Former Moravia High School (1924)

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* * Moravia (village), New York Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Historic districts in Cayuga County, New York National Register of Historic Places in Cayuga County, New York {{CayugaCountyNY-NRHP-stub