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First Presbyterian Church
Princeton, Mercer County

Founded in 1753 and built in 1839. An early Greek Revival building, attributed to Charles Steadman. It is now known as the Nassau Street Presbyterian church.
     As far as I can tell, this is the earliest full-blown Greek Revival church in the state. In spite of the fact that Philadelphia was the site of some of the earliest Greek Revival buildings in the country, and the Greek Revival influence permeated New England by the 1820s, the style was slow to be adopted here. Many churches, particularly in the central part of the state, adopted this style, which was in use as late as the mid-1850s.

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