First Presbyterian Church, 19 North Sixth Street, Fernandina Beach, Nassau County, FL

Significance: The First Presbyterian Church is probably the oldest remaining religious building in Fernandina. It is a good example of how the New England Meeting House style found its way out of that geographic region due to mitigation to frontier areas like Florida in the 1850s.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-78

Survey number: HABS FL-278

Building/structure dates: ca. 1860 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1908 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1911 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1926 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1948 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1958 Subsequent Work

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