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MITCHELLS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Built in 1879, this Gothic Revival church stands two miles south of this location. It contains an elaborate example of <i>trompe-l'oeil</i> fresco painting done in 1888. Joseph Dominick Phillip Oddenino, an Italian immigrant artist, painted to deceive the eye into believing that his plaster murals of Gothic arches, Renaissance-styled cornices, and embellished Corinthian columns were three dimensional. The ceiling is decorated with geometric designs.
Department of Conservation and Historic Resources, 1985 |