St. Mark's Lutheran Church is a historic
Lutheran
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church
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Religion
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* Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination
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on Main Street in
Guilderland Center,
Albany County, New York
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. It was built in 1872 in a vernacular
Italianate
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style. It has curved arched windows and a bracketed
cornice
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. It features a square
bell tower
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with pedimented cornice and
steeple
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.
St. Mark's served the Lutherans until 1973, when the town leased it as a community center.
It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1982.
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Lutheran churches in New York (state)
Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Italianate architecture in New York (state)
Churches completed in 1872
19th-century Lutheran churches in the United States
Churches in Albany County, New York
Former churches in New York (state)
National Register of Historic Places in Albany County, New York
Italianate church buildings in the United States
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