The parish of Christ Episcopal Church in Red Wing, Minnesota, United States, was founded in 1858. A wooden building was erected that served the early parish well, but by 1868 it was felt that the growth of the parish made the building of a larger church a necessity.
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In the autumn of that year work began on the new building, constructed in Gothic Revival style following plans furnished by New York architect Henry C. Dudley.[1]
- D.C. Hill was contracted to do the basic carpentry work; George H. Davis provided the finished carpentry (seats, columns, tracery, wainscoting; all of butternut finished in oil).
- G.A. Carlson carried out the stonework with magnesian limestone from his quarries.
- The windows were furnished by a "Mr. Sharpe from New York."[2]
The cornerstone was laid June 24, 1869 and the new church was consecrated by Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple on December 19, 1871.[3] (Due to concerns about the foundations, the steeple was not added until 1897.)[4]
The church is now a contributing property to the Red Wing Mall Historic District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
References edit
- ^ A History of Goodhue County; Wood, Alley & Co, Red Wing, 1878; 369. In 1863 Draper & Dudley had been the architects of a new building for St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Waterloo, NY. Waterloo was the boyhood home of the Rev. Edward R. Welles, founding rector of Christ Church (1858-1874), and the Welles family was prominently engaged in the building of the new St. Paul's. (See A History of Seneca County; Everts, Ensign and Everts, Philadelphia, 1878; 88.) While providing essentially the same elevation as St. Paul's, for Christ Church Dudley reversed the placement of the tower from the right to left sides of the façade.
- ^ A History of Goodhue County; Wood, Alley & Co, Red Wing, 1878. Possibly Henry E. Sharp, who was active in New York between c. 1850 and 1897 and who furnished glass for a number of Gothic Revival churches. (See Alice Cooney Freylinghuysen, American Stained Glass in a New Light; http://www.antiquesandfineart.com/articles/ article.cfm?request=959; accessed April 4, 2011.) Sharp's ad in The Churchman of roughly the same time period features "stained glass windows for churches; memorial windows a specialty." (The Churchman, Vol. 36, Nov. 10, 1877; Churchman Co., New York; 532.) In 1863 Sharp also provided glass for St. John's Chapel, Hobart College, which had been Welles' alma mater some years earlier. (Lewis Cass Aldritch and George Stillwell Conner, A History of Ontario County, NY; D. Mason and Co., Syracuse, NY,1893; 291.)
- ^ A History of Christ Church; parish production for the 150th anniversary, 2008; 7.
- ^ A History of Christ Church; parish production for the 150th anniversary, 2008; 9.
External links edit
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