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First Unitarian Church

Architect
James W. McLaughlin
Year
1889
Style
Richardsonian Romanesque
City
Cincinnati, OH
First Unitarian Church
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain
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First Unitarian Church is an 1889 Cincinnati church designed by James W. McLaughlin in the Richardsonian Romanesque style. It is individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

the building

1889 street facade. The 1889 church reads prominently from the street through its Richardsonian Romanesque massing and detailing.

the style

First Unitarian Church is designed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style, the heavy, round-arched idiom popularized by H.H. Richardson and adopted here by McLaughlin.

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the architect

James W. McLaughlin also designed the Richardsonian Romanesque Sir Alfred T. Goshorn House in Cincinnati.

significance

First Unitarian Church is individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

nearby

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