Built 1834 Opened 1834 Added to NRHP 28 July 1995 | NRHP Reference # 95000906 Area 6,900 m² Architect Rufus G. Russell | |
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Location 1247--1253 Whitney Ave., Hamden, Connecticut Architectural style Greek Revival architecture Similar West Rock Ridge, Lake Whitney, Farmington Canal Heritage, Wharton Brook State Park, Eli Whitney Museum |
The Whitneyville Congregational Church, now the Whitneyville United Church of Christ, is a historic Congregational Church at 1247-1253 Whitney Avenue in the Whitneyville section of Hamden, Connecticut. The congregation is now affiliated with the United Church of Christ (UCC). The church building is a Greek Revival style built in 1834, with an interior altered in 1866 to designs by Rufus G. Russell. It has an entrance deeply recessed behind a pair of fluted columns, flanked on the sides by pilasters rising to support a triangular pediment.
The church, along with its 1924 parish house, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
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