St. Paul's Episcopal Church (Poughkeepsie, New York)
| St. Paul's Episcopal Church | |
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West profile and south elevation, 2008
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| Basic information | |
| Location | Poughkeepsie |
| Geographic coordinates | 41°42′24″N 73°55′20″W / 41.70667°N 73.92222°W |
| Affiliation | Episcopal Church in the United States of America |
| Country | United States of America |
| Year consecrated | 1873 |
| Leadership | The Rev. Tyler Jones |
| Website | St. Paul's Episcopal Church |
| Architectural description | |
| Architect(s) | Emlen T. Littell |
| Architectural type | church |
| Architectural style | Norman-Gothic Revival |
| General contractor | William T. Harlow |
| Groundbreaking | 1870-1873 |
| Specifications | |
| Direction of façade | South |
| Capacity | 350 |
| Materials | Stone |
| U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
| Added to NRHP | 1982 |
| NRHP Reference no. | 82001163 |
St. Paul's Episcopal Church is located at North Hamilton and Mansion streets on the west side of Mansion Square in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. It is a stone church in the Norman-Gothic Revival styles built in the late 19th century.
Designed by New York City architect Emlen Littell, it has had additions and renovations by other well-known architects, such as Frederick Clarke Withers and Richard Upjohn. The interior treatment was done by Tiffany & Co. in the early 20th century. In 1982 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
The church building is a one-and-a-half-story structure, three bays wide on the south (front) facade, faced in rough-cut stone. A three-and-a-half-story high tower topped with a broach spire rises from the southeast corner. The side elevations have stained glass clerestory windows.
At the main entrance, heavy wooden doors hang on strap hinges inside a small projecting portico. Inside, much of the original interior remains, including woodwork, furniture, doors and hardware.
St. Paul's was organized by a group of local businessmen who first met in September 1835 and elected wardens and vestry. Two years later, they built a Greek Revival church, partially funded by Manhattan's Trinity Church on the site of the present one.
The Panic of 1837 and the ensuing lean economic times strained the church's finances enough that it seriously considered closing in 1842. It did not, and in 1846 hired Dr. Albert Traver, a rector who pioneered in diversity and multiculturalism by accepting the job only if he could continue his work ministering to German immigrants in the Town of Clinton nearby, in rural northern Dutchess County, one Sunday a month.
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