Unitarian Universalist Church (Stamford, Connecticut)

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Unitarian-Universalist Church
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Location20 Forest St., Stamford, Connecticut
Coordinates 41°3′27″N73°32′14″W / 41.05750°N 73.53722°W / 41.05750; -73.53722 Coordinates: 41°3′27″N73°32′14″W / 41.05750°N 73.53722°W / 41.05750; -73.53722
Arealess than one acre
Built1870
Architect Gage Inslee
Architectural styleGothic, English Country Gothic
MPS Downtown Stamford Ecclesiastical Complexes TR
NRHP reference No. 87002126 [1]
Added to NRHPDecember 24, 1987

The Unitarian Universalist Church is a historic church at 20 Forest Street in Stamford, Connecticut. It is a modestly-sized Gothic Revival structure, built out of fieldstone, brick, and granite, in 1870 to a design by Stamford architect Gage Inslee. While most of its exterior windows are stenciled in imitation of stained glass, it has two genuine stained glass windows in the choir loft that are between 400 and 700 years old, and were brought over parishioner Thomas Crane. The church rectory, built 1880, is a handsome Victorian Gothic structure with early elements of Queen Anne styling. [2]

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The church complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. [1]

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  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. "NRHP nomination for Unitarian-Universalist Church". National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-01-04.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)