Completed in 1836, Government Street Presbyterian Church is one of the oldest and least-altered Greek Revival style houses of worship remaining in the United States.

The building also illustrates one of the earliest estant religious usages in America of the distyle-in-antis Grecian portico, a feature eventually adopted for countless houses of worship throughout the country.

The architects of this church, James Gallier and his partners James and Charles Dakin, were direct products of the American Greek Revival school, as well as being its chief purveyors to the Gulf states of the Old South.

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