St. John's Cathedral, Los Angeles
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| Location | 514 W. Adams Blvd Los Angeles, California |
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| Coordinates | 34°1′38″N 118°16′29″W / 34.02722°N 118.27472°WCoordinates: 34°1′38″N 118°16′29″W / 34.02722°N 118.27472°W |
| Built | 1925 |
| Architect | Davis, Walter and Pierpont; Hanson, Luis |
| Architectural style | Romanesque Revival |
| NRHP Reference # | 00000425 |
| LAHCM # | 516 |
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| Added to NRHP | May 5, 2000 |
| Designated LAHCM | January 22, 1991 |
St. John's Cathedral is an Episcopal church near downtown Los Angeles that serves as both a parish church and the cathedral church of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, an area covering five-and-a-half counties. Though St. John's was formed in 1890, the current Romanesque Revival architectural style church was built in 1925. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
St. John's was founded in 1890. The Los Angeles Times reported on the groundbreaking ceremony in a front-page story:
Quite a large number of interested people assembled on foot and in carriages at the corner of Figueroa and Adams streets, at 4 p.m. yesterday, to witness the laying of the corner-stone of St. John's Episcopal Church. The clergy, in their vestments, preceded by the vestry of the parish, came on the grounds in procession, opening the service as they approached the building site. ... St. John's is to be a tasteful Gothic structure of brick, with stone facings, and wood, capable of seating 150 people. It is placed on the lot as to admit of the erection of a larger structure in the near future.
The original neo-Gothic church was consecrated in June 1894.
In 1913, George Davidson became rector of St. John's, a position he held until 1951. Davidson led the church during a period of growth, as membership rose from 400 to 2,300. He was also a member of the faculty at USC for 14 years, served as president of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), and was one of the first organizers of the city's Community Chest drives. When Davidson retired in 1951 at age 71, more than 1,000 people attended his final service at St. John's. At the time, he said, "In all humility, I express my gratitude. My prayers are for St. John's and may His blessing be upon all its loyal members who have raised its standard high. ... The joys and sorrows, the achievements and failures, the happiness and loneliness of many people during the years have been so woven into the fabric of my life that it is difficult for me to express adequately the mingling feelings of my heart in this solemn hour." Davidson died in July 1967 in Los Angeles.
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