St. Paul's Episcopal Church is a historic

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-style

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church building located at F and Taylor Streets in

Virginia City, Nevada Virginia City is a census-designated place (CDP) that is the county seat of Storey County, Nevada, United States, and the largest community in the county. The city is a part of the Reno, Nevada, Reno–Sparks, Nevada, Sparks Reno, NV Metropolitan ...

, United States. It was built in 1876 to replace an earlier church that had burned down in 1875. St Paul's Parish, founded on September 1, 1861, is still an active congregation in the Episcopal Diocese of Nevada.Episcopal Diocese of Nevada list of parishes
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in the Virginia City Historic District which was declared a

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in 1961 and added to the

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in 1966.

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