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New Sharon Congregational Church

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New Sharon Congregational Church
Contents 21 Cape Cod Hill Road in New Sharon, Maine. Built in 1845, this
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listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1] The
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with a clapboarded pediment. Its tower, rising from the ridge behind
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the main facade, begins with a square stage that has wide lancet-
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arch windows divided by a thin vertical strip, finished in clapboards
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and weathervane top the tower. The main facade has two
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symmetrically-placed entrances and a tall raised window at the
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The church was built in 1845 to replace an earlier wood-frame

building destroyed by fire. This older building had been built in 1816
as a common meeting house for four different denominations; the
Baptists, Methodists, and Unitarians had all eventually built their
own buildings, leaving the original with the Congregationalists. The
rise the building stands on includes a large grassy area, which is
the nearest thing New Sharon has to a town common.[2]

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Franklin County,

Location 21 Cape Cod Hill Road,
Maine
New Sharon, Maine
Coordinates 44°38′10″N 70°0′50″W
References [edit] Area 1 acre (0.40 ha)
a b Built 1845
1. ^ "National Register Information System" . National Register
of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009. Architectural style Mid 19th Century Revival
a b NRHP reference No. 85001261 [1]
2. ^ "NRHP nomination for New Sharon Congregational
Church" . National Park Service . Retrieved 2015-02-16. Added to NRHP June 20, 1985

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New Sharon Congregational Church web site

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