First Baptist Church and Cook Memorial Building

First Baptist Church and Cook Memorial Building
First Baptist Church and Cook Memorial Building, July 2010
Location: 511 State St., Carthage, New York
Area: 0.4 acres (0.16 ha)
Built: 1860
Architectural style: Gothic, Romanesque
Governing body: Private
NRHP Reference#: 05000016[1]
Added to NRHP: February 9, 2005

First Baptist Church and Cook Memorial Building is a historic Baptist church located at Carthage in Jefferson County, New York. The church was built in 1885 and is a vernacular Gothic / Romanesque Revival–style edifice. It is of brick with stone trim and features asymmetrical massing, a multi-story bell tower, broad cross gables, corbelled brick cornices, stone-capped brick buttresses, and lencet-arched stained glass windows. The Cook Memorial Building dates to the 1860s-1870s and is a two story brick dwelling with a variety of Italianate style and late Victorian eclectic features.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.[1]

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