Grace Church, Mt. Airy
Grace Church, Mt. Airy | |
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Location | 224 E. Gowen Ave., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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Coordinates | 40°3′57″N 75°11′24″W / 40.06583°N 75.19000°WCoordinates: 40°3′57″N 75°11′24″W / 40.06583°N 75.19000°W |
Area | 2 acres (0.81 ha) |
Built | 1888 |
Architect | Burns, Charles M.; Nattress, George, et al. |
Architectural style | Late Victorian |
NRHP reference No. | 97001654[1] |
Added to NRHP | January 15, 1998 |
Grace Church, Mt. Airy (Grace Epiphany Church) is a historic Episcopal church at 224 E. Gowen Avenue in Mount Airy neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The church, its parish house, and a rectory were designed by Charles M. Burns and built in 1888. Burns also designed the Church of the Advocate in Philadelphia. A school was added in 1962. The three original buildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.[2]
Rood screen, altar & reredos (1908–09), carved by Edward Maene.
Rectors[]
In the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, the rector is the priest elected to head a self-supporting parish.
- Rev. G. A. Redles (1874-1875)
- Rev. Simeon Hill (1875-1912)
- Rev. Thomas Sparks Cline (1913-1924)
- Rev. Charles E. Eder (1925-1958) [3]
- Rev. Richard K. Bauder (1959-1989)[4]
References[]
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ Putney, H. Donald (1996). "Grace Church, Mt. Airy" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Retrieved January 4, 2014.
- ^ "Historical Directory of Episcopal Clergy in Philadelphia". Retrieved 2017-01-01.
- ^ mjk38 (2015-05-17). "Leaflet for the Institution Service of Richard Kenneth Bauder as Rector of Grace Church, Mt. Airy (1959)". Philadelphia Studies. Retrieved 2016-10-17.
External links[]
- Official site
- Witness to Grace: A History of Grace Church, Mt. Airy (1857-1988)
- History of Twenty-Five Years in Grace Church, Mt. Airy
Categories:
- Properties of religious function on the National Register of Historic Places in Philadelphia
- Churches completed in 1888
- 19th-century churches in the United States
- Churches in Philadelphia
- Mount Airy, Philadelphia
- Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
- Episcopal churches in Pennsylvania
- 19th-century Episcopal church buildings
- Philadelphia Register of Historic Places
- Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania Registered Historic Place stubs
- Pennsylvania church stubs