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First Presbyterian Church (Vandalia, Illinois)

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
82002534

Added to NRHP
  
24 March 1982

Built
  
1868

Opened
  
1868

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Location
  
301 W. Main St., Vandalia, Illinois

Architectural style
  
Gothic Revival architecture

The First Presbyterian Church is a museum and former Presbyterian church located at 301 W. Main St. in Vandalia, Illinois. The church was built in 1868 on the site of the first Protestant church in Illinois. The first church at the site, the House of Divine Worship, was a non-denominational church built in 1823 by an of the Illinois State Legislature; at the time, Vandalia was the state capital, and the governor's house was located next to the church. The Presbyterian church, built after the state capital moved to Springfield, was designed in the Gothic Revival style. The red brick church has a 60-foot (18 m) tall bell tower. The church has twelve Gothic pointed arch windows; each window has an oval stained glass pattern depicting a religious scene. Vandalia's Presbyterian congregation left the building for a new church in the 1960s, and the building is now used as the Fayette County Museum.

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 24, 1982. It is one of four sites on the National Register in Fayette County.

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First Presbyterian Church (Vandalia, Illinois) Wikipedia