Community Center (New Berlin Presbyterian Church)

Community Center (New Berlin Presbyterian Church)

Community Center (New Berlin Presbyterian Church) William E. Fischer, Jr.
1843. 318 Vine St.

The Presbyterians arrived fifty years after the founding of New Berlin and built a Greek Revival brick meetinghouse one block from “church row” on Market Street. A short flight of steps leads up to the white wooden portico carried on four fluted Doric columns beneath an entablature with carved triglyphs and guttae. An octagonal cupola sits on a square platform behind the quaint clapboarded pediment. The massive bracketed door surrounds add an Italianate flourish to the provincial classicism.

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