St. Luke's Episcopal Church (New Haven, Connecticut)
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| Location | 111-113 Whalley Ave., New Haven, Connecticut |
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| Coordinates | 41°18′51″N 72°56′9″W / 41.31417°N 72.93583°W |
| Area | 1 acre (0.40 ha) |
| Architect | Brown & von Beren |
| Architectural style | Late Gothic Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 03001170[1] |
| Added to NRHP | November 21, 2003 |
St. Luke's Episcopal Church is a historic church at 111-113 Whalley Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut. Built in 1905 for a congregation founded in 1844, it is a good example of late Gothic Revival architecture, and is further notable as the second church in the city established as an African-American congregation. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.[1]
Architecture and history
[edit]St. Luke's Episcopal Church is located northwest of the New Haven Green, at the corner of Whalley Avenue and Sperry Street in the city's Dixwell neighborhood. It is a single-story masonry structure, built out of red bricks with Indiana sandstone trim. It is L-shaped in plan, with the main sanctuary oriented with its long axis perpendicular to Whalley Avenue, covered by a gabled roof. The sides are buttressed, as is the tower that projects at the center of the front facade. A hyphen connects the sanctuary to a 20th-century addition fronting Sperry Avenue to the rear right side. The main entrance is at the center of the tower, set in a round-arch opening, above which is a small ornately surrounded stained glass window.[2]
The congregation of St. Luke's has its origin in one established in 1844, when the African-American membership of the city's Trinity Church on the Green separated to organize it. At first they met in a chapel owned by Trinity, and then they purchased the building of an African-American Baptist congregation in 1852. They began a building drive in 1894 to raise funds for construction of this building, which was completed in 1905. It was designed by the local firm of Brown & von Beren, who did extensive work in the city in the early decades of the 20th century; it is one of a small number of churches designed by that firm.[2]
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[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ a b Mary Dunne (March 24, 2003). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: St. Luke's Episcopal Church". National Park Service. and Accompanying 10 photos, exterior and interior
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