Building date: 1841, demolished c. 1870. Editor's Note: Wayne Historians Organization (WHO) documentation below states that the structure burned in 1870.
Original use: Church
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°03'47.98"N 77°14'01.44"W.
Town of Palmyra and Wayne County Maps.
The Baptists' first church in the village of Palmyra was a cobblestone building in 1841 erected at 100 West Main St. It was dedicated on January 28, 1841, measuring 40 by 60 feet with accommodations in the basement. That building was razed to make way for the new Romanesque Revival style First Baptist Church which wad dedicated on March 21, 1871. (P. 251, Palmyra and Vicinity by Thomas L. Cook, 1931). A reference to this is also included in Palmyra Village Historic District Cultural Resource Survey, The Clinton Brown Company Architecture, PC published in 2009, footnote 19, page 11.
In his column - "Palmyra of the Past" No. VI, published by the Wayne County Journal on May 27, 1915, Pliny S. Aldrich Wayne County Journal, Pliny S. Aldrich wrote:
"The original Baptist Church in Palmyra was a cobblestone building. It was located on the southwest corner of West Main and Canandaigua streets, and was torn down when the present Baptist church building was built in 1870; the earth from the excavation was drawn into the Union School yard which before that time had been, each winter, a skating pond as the gutters from Canandaigua street flowed into the school yard." Richard Palmer email 7/8/2020.
First Baptist Church history sheet. From the personal research of cobblestone historian Karen Crandall.
First Baptist Church of Palmyra records, 1835-1865. Collection Number: 6033
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Cornell University Library
Wayne Historians Organization (WHO), Historic Sites Inventory First Baptist Church of Palmyra
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¹ 1858 Wayne County Map Pal-24 Excerpt courtesy Library of Congress.
