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MANY ROADS TO FREEDOM:
ABOLITIONIST AND CIVIL WAR SITES IN ROCHESTER
 

2. CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

Central Presbyterian Church at N. Plymouth Avenue and Church Street. The congregation was organized in 1836 as Bethel Free Church. Its first building was erected on South Washington Street. Around 1842, its name changed to Washington Street Presbyterian Church. In 1858 the congregation moved to Sophia Street (Plymouth Avenue) and changed their name to Central Presbyterian Church. A large addition, shown here on the left, was added to the church in 1891. The building was the site of the funerals of Frederick Douglass (1895) and Susan B. Anthony (1906).

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Central Presbyterian Church


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