WordNet
n. a place for public (especially Christian) worship; "the church was empty" [syn: church]
Wikipedia
The Church Building is located at the corner of Main and Market Streets in downtown Poughkeepsie, New York, United States, just across Market Street from the Dutchess County Court House, and north of the Bardavon Theater. It is a complex of stores and other commercial space, so named because it is owned by the Reformed Dutch Church of Poughkeepsie, which has owned the land since 1717 and benefits from the rental income. It was the western anchor of Main Mall, the city's former pedestrian mall.
It is considered the best example of Art Deco architecture in the city, where most commercial buildings predate the style's popularity in the 1930s. The two-story building has tilework designs suggesting Native American aesthetics. Other ornamental touches associated with Art Deco include, floral and patterned metalwork along the shop cornices, and polished green and black marble inside. There are also ribbed pilasters between the windows and a multicolored chevron pattern above and below the roof parapets.
The interior is intact, although some of the offices and shops have been modernized. One of the former does remain in its original condition. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
Usage examples of "church building".
From the humble beginnings of the storefront on Hart Street, to the respectable but by no means splashy domicile off Beniteau, Assumption was finally going to get a grand church building.
Those who hated the beauty of the modern church building used this period of unrest to attack and destroy what they did not like because they did not understand it.
The deacons had hauled the piano out the front door of the old church building and onto the stoop, so there was music for the ceremony.
The University is the largest Church building on the island, the astrophysics laboratory, at four stories, its tallest.
The majority of whites expected to be outside the church building at five past noon on Sunday, and seated for lunch by twelve-thirty.
She walked lightly to the hut closest to the large church building.