Calvary Episcopal Church, Homer New York is a Gothic Revival architecture built in 1831-1832. It is built of wood, upon a basement story of stone. Located on Park Street, on the west side of the Homer Village Green. This church is the oldest public structure in the Village of Homer still in use. The church membership does not hold title to the land on which the church stands. This land, the Village Green, is owned by the First Religious Society of Homer, Inc. which granted the Episcopal Society permission to erect their church upon it. Born in Homer, Andrew D. White, co-founder and first president of Cornell University in Ithaca NY, was baptized in this church June 7, 1835.
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