St. Luke's Episcopal Church (Beacon, New York)
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West elevation and south profile of St. Luke's, 2008
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| Basic information | |
| Location | Beacon, NY, United States |
| Geographic coordinates | 41°29′50″N 73°57′48″W / 41.49722°N 73.96333°W |
| Affiliation | Episcopal Church in the United States of America |
| Country | United States of America |
| Year consecrated | 1879 |
| Leadership | The Rev. Dr. Edwin H. Cromey (vicar) |
| Website | St. Luke's Episcopal Church - Beacon, NY |
| Architectural description | |
| Architect(s) | Frederick Clarke Withers |
| Architectural type | church |
| Architectural style | Gothic Revival |
| General contractor | William Harloe |
| Groundbreaking | 1869 |
| Completed | 1870 |
| Construction cost | $60,000 |
| Specifications | |
| Direction of façade | west |
| Width (nave) | 29.5 feet (9.0 m) |
| Materials | Bluestone, sandstone |
| U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
| Added to NRHP | May 30, 2008 |
| NRHP Reference no. | 08000517 |
St. Luke's Episcopal Church is located in Beacon, New York, United States. The church complex of four buildings and a cemetery takes up a 12-acre (4.9 ha) parcel between Wolcott (NY 9D), Rector, Phillips and Union Streets. It was founded in 1832 as a religious school that soon became St. Anna's Church of Fishkill Landing.
The church and rectory were built in 1869 from a design by Frederick Clarke Withers, who later on considered the former one of his best buildings. The Gothic Revival-styled building strongly reflects contemporary Ecclesiological theories of appropriate church architecture. Despite some modifications and restoration, the buildings and grounds have remained largely as they were when first built. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008 as "St. Luke's Episcopal Church Complex".
Withers' original design included the church and its rectory, on the corner of Wolcott and Rector. A Parish House was added near the end of the 19th century. It was added to, and a garage built, in the mid-20th. The church buildings and cemetery were laid out by Henry Winthrop Sargent.
St. Luke's is a one-and-half-story asymmetrical cruciform building faced in Schenectady bluestone in an ashlar pattern with Ohio sandstone trim. It is over a hundred feet (30 m) in length and 60 feet (20 m) wide. Two porches extend from the south profile, a main entrance in the middle of the nave and a secondary one in the transept. There is another porch, pent-roofed, on the north transept. An organ and robing room is attached to the north side of the chancel.
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