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St. Marks
St Mark's Episcopal Church
St. Mark's Episcopal Church (Worcester, Massachusetts) is located in Massachusetts
St. Mark's Episcopal Church (Worcester, Massachusetts)
LocationFreeland St., Worcester, Massachusetts
Arealess than one acre
Built1888
ArchitectStephen C. Earle
Architectural styleRomanesque
MPSWorcester MRA
NRHP reference No.80000481[1]
Added to NRHPMarch 5, 1980

St. Mark's Episcopal Church is an historic Episcopal church building at 6 Freeland Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. The Romanesque Revival stone building was designed by local architect Stephen C. Earle, and built in 1888 for a congregation established the preceding year. On March 5, 1980, the church building was added to the National Register of Historic Places as St. Marks.[1] The current minister is Rev. Donald F. Chamberlain.

Architecture and history

St. Mark's is located in southwester Worcester, on the west side of Freeland Street, just south of Main Street and southwest of Clark University. It is a two story masonry structure, built of broken-coursed rusticated sandstone. It presents a side-gable roof to the street, with the main entrance recessed at the center under a large round-arch opening. Its principal decorative elements are panels with round medallions on either side of the arch over the recessed entrance, and the irregular placement of the windows. The front of the building houses the parish house, while the sanctuary is located in a cross-gabled extension to the rear.[2]

The parish of St. Mark's was established as a mission in 1886 by Rev. William Huntington of All Saints Episcopal Church, the city's first Episcopal congregation, and held its first services in 1887 in a nearby Baptist church, while this building was under construction. It was completed in 1888 to a design by local architect Stephen C. Earle. Prominent early congregants included James and Orlando Norcross, principals of the Norcross Brothers construction firm.[2]

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References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ a b "NRHP nomination for St. Mark's Episcopal Church". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-01-18.
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