First Baptist Church and Cook Memorial Building is a historic Baptist

Baptist

Baptists comprise a group of Christian denominations and churches that subscribe to a doctrine that baptism should be performed only for professing believers , and that it must be done by immersion...

 church located at Carthage

Carthage, New York

Carthage is a village located in the Town of Wilna in Jefferson County, New York. The population was 3,721 at the 2000 census. The village is named after the historic Carthage in North Africa....

 in Jefferson County, New York

Jefferson County, New York

Jefferson County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 116,229. It is named after Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States of America, and president at the time the county was created in 1805...

. The church was built in 1885 and is a vernacular Gothic

Gothic Revival architecture

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 / Romanesque Revival

Romanesque Revival architecture

Romanesque Revival is a style of building employed beginning in the mid 19th century inspired by the 11th and 12th century Romanesque architecture...

–style edifice. It is of brick with stone trim and features asymmetrical massing, a multi-story bell tower

Bell tower

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, broad cross gables, corbelled brick cornice

Cornice

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s, stone-capped brick buttress

Buttress

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es, and lencet-arched stained glass

Stained glass

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 windows. The Cook Memorial Building dates to the 1860s-1870s and is a two story brick dwelling with a variety of Italianate style and late Victorian eclectic features.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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in 2005.