Built 1827 Opened 1827 Architectural style Federal architecture Added to NRHP 16 February 1973 | NRHP Reference # 73001950 Area 8,000 m² Phone +1 203-272-5323 Architect David Hoadley | |
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Location 111 Church Dr., Cheshire, Connecticut Address 111 Church Dr, Cheshire, CT 06410, USA Similar First Congregational Church of, Bartlem Recreation Area, First Church of Christ - W, Samuel Wadsworth Russell H, Avon Congregational Church Profiles | ||
The First Congregational Church of Cheshire is a historic church at 111 Church Drive in Cheshire, Connecticut. It was designed by David Hoadley and built in 1827. It features a shallow oval dome.
Five other Congregational churches were built on essentially the same design in the Connecticut towns of Old Lyme (the 1816-17 Old Lyme Congregational Church), Milford (1823), Litchfield (the 1829 First Congregational Church of Litchfield), Southington (1830), and Guilford (the 1830 First Congregational Church of Guilford). All six churches have front porticos with four fluted columns, the doors of all six have the same dimensions, all six steeples are of the same design and are surmounted by weathervanes that appear to have been cast from one mold, and all six churches have twenty-over-twenty double-hung windows. The similarities suggest that some of the building elements may have been prefabricated.
The church was described by Connecticut architectural historian J. Frederick Kelly. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.