St. Peter's Episcopal Church is a historic

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style

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church Church may refer to: Religion * Church (building), a place/building for Christian religious activities and praying * Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination * Church service, a formalized period of Christian comm ...

located at 44 Main Street in Bloomfield,

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. Constructed in 1871, it is a small,

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, Carpenter Gothic style frame building. The 67 foot by 27 foot rectangular structure is surmounted by a sharply pitched gable roof featuring polychrome

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shingles set in a decorative diamond pattern. A square

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surmounted by a pyramidal

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is attached to the front corner of the main body of the church. ''See also:'' It was listed on the

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in 1996.

References

Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Carpenter Gothic church buildings in New York (state) Churches completed in 1871 19th-century Episcopal church buildings Churches in Ontario County, New York Episcopal church buildings in New York (state) National Register of Historic Places in Ontario County, New York {{NewYork-Anglican-church-stub