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The First Methodist Church of Burlington is a historic church located at 21 Buell Street (corner of S. Winooski Avenue) in
Burlington, Vermont Burlington is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Vermont and the seat of Chittenden County. It is located south of the Canada–United States border and south of Montreal. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the population was 44,743. It ...
. Built in 1869 to a design by Alexander R. Esty, it is the city's only example of ecclesiastical
Romanesque Revival architecture 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 to ...
. It was listed on the
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in 1978.


Architecture and history

Burlington's First Methodist Church stands in downtown Burlington, at the southeast corner of Buell Street and South Winooski Avenue. It is a large masonry structure, built out of red sandstone with trim from the quarries of
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. It is basically rectangular in shape, with a gabled roof and a square tower in height at its northwest corner. The styling is basically Gothic, although instead of Gothic lancet windows, most of the windows have a round-arch top, giving the building an overall Romanesque feel. Bays on the sidewalls are articulated by buttresses, as are the corners of the tower, which rises to a square louvered belfry and octagonal steeple. The church is connected at the rear via a connecting addition to its parsonage. with The church was built in 1869, on the site of Burlington's first Methodist church, which was built in 1834. It was designed by
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architect Alexander R. Esty, who is best known for a number of Gothic designs in that state. The parsonage was added in the early 20th century, using similar materials and styling, replacing the previous parsonage, which stood where Buell Street now runs. The stained glass windows were designed by J.M. Cook of
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.


See also

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Chittenden County, Vermont __NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Chittenden County, Vermont. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Chittenden Count ...


References


External links


Burlington First United Methodist Church web site
{{NRHP in Chittenden County, Vermont Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Vermont Churches completed in 1869 19th-century Methodist church buildings in the United States Churches in Burlington, Vermont Methodist churches in Vermont 1869 establishments in Vermont National Register of Historic Places in Burlington, Vermont