Midway Church architectural style

["John S. Quarterman" <jsq@quarterman.org>]

Here's a building that strongly resembles Midway Church:
 http://www.boston-travel-info.com/Faneuil-Hall.jpg

or more likely the other way around.  Faneuil Hall in Boston,
built in 1742 and rebuilt after a fire in 1762.  It was where
Sam Adams and cohorts plotted revolutionary actions.

A number of features are similar to Midway Church:
 http://www.quarterman.org/pictures/wleconte/MidwayXChurchX1946.html

 - symmetric rows of windows on several floors along the end
 - round windows below the roof
 - square tower above the end of the roof
 - with an octagonal tower above that
 - and an octagonal roof above that

And of course the Midway community was ahead of the rest of Georgia
in plotting revolutionary actions.  Those who were involved probably
met at the church.

Faneuil Hall was known as "the cradle of Liberty".
Midway Church was sometimes known as "Georgia's cradle of Liberty".

Coincidence?  Maybe.  Interesting resemblance, though.

Here's a Presbyterian church with some similar features:
 http://web.archive.org/web/19981201211810/http://l-p-c.org/

Maybe it was a style that caught on for churches.

John S. Quarterman <jsq@quarterman.org>
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