Presbyterian Manse

Presbyterian Manse 70 South Main Street

Though they appear to share a common wall, the buildings couldn't be more different in style. The roots of the dark red building on the left are tied to the Romanesque Revival style. There are round-arch windows, a blind arcade at the top of the "tower," and rusticated stone accenting the entrance and the belt courses. This building was the second Presbyterian Manse, erected about 1892. The original Presbyterian church was at South Main and Market, now marked with a stone marker. 

Constructed as a home for clergy Reverend Townsend for the Phillipsburg Presbyterian Church in 1858, the Manse was sold to attorney John F Dumont in 1883 and has since been used primarily as a law office and residence upstairs. It was the last office of the Honorable Frank S Thompson, Esquire, a member of the New Jersey Assembly in 1942 and State Committee in 1952.