First Congregational Church of Cheshire

	First Congregational Church of Cheshire
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	111 Church Dr., Cheshire, Connecticut
Area	2 acres (0.81 ha)
Built	1827
Architect	David Hoadley
Architectural style	Federal, Adamesque
NRHP reference No.	73001950
Added to NRHP	February 16, 1973

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.^[2]

The church was described by Connecticut architectural historian J. Frederick Kelly. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.^[1]^[3]

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^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ Riess, Jana (2002). The spiritual traveler: Boston and New England: A guide to sacred sites and peaceful places. Hidden Spring. p. 271. ISBN 978-1-58768-008-3.
^ Bruce Clouette (July 22, 1975). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: First Congregational Church of Cheshire" (PDF). National Park Service. and Accompanying four photos, exterior and interior, from 1975

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.

[2] Riess, Jana (2002). The spiritual traveler: Boston and New England: A guide to sacred sites and peaceful places. Hidden Spring. p. 271. ISBN 978-1-58768-008-3.

[nrhpinv3-3] Bruce Clouette (July 22, 1975). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: First Congregational Church of Cheshire" (PDF). National Park Service. and Accompanying four photos, exterior and interior, from 1975

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