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- ↑ T. Robins Brown, Schuyler Warmflash, Jim DelGiudice, The architecture of Bergen County, New Jersey: the colonial period to the twentieth century
- ↑ Wilson, Dreck Spurlock (2004). African-American Architects: A Biographical Dictionary, 1865-1945. ISBN 978-0-415-92959-2.
- ↑ St Philip's Church History Archived 2010-08-01 at the Wayback Machine (Accessed 2 August 2010)
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