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- 100 W. Franklin St. (church), 504 Cathedral St., Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Franklin Street Presbyterian Church and Parsonage is a historic Presbyterian church located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. The church is a rectangular Tudor Gothic building dedicated in 1847, with an addition in 1865. The front features two 60 foot flanking octagonal towers are also crenelated and have louvered belfry openings and stained glass Gothic-arched windows. The parsonage has walls of brick, heavy Tudor-Gothic window hoods, and battlements atop the roof and was built in 1857.
This church was incorporated in 1844 by a group of men from the First Presbyterian Church who felt the need for a new church in the fast-growing northern section of the city. In 1973, the two historic congregations reunited to form The First and Franklin Street Presbyterian Church. The church is no longer used by a Presbyterian congregation. John Gresham Machen, the founder of Westminster Seminary attended the church as a child. The church and parsonage were listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 5, 1971. They are included within the Cathedral Hill Historic District and the Baltimore National Heritage Area.
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