File:Historical Marker, Grace Episcopal Church, Washington Avenue and Carroll Street, Madison, WI (52734297705).jpg
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| Description | Built in 1855-1858, this Gothic Revival-style church was designed by James Douglas for the congregation of Grace Episcopal Church, the oldest congregation in Madison. The building is the oldest remaining structure fronting Capitol Square, though buildings of similar age can be found around King Street on the east side of the square in the city’s original commercial district. The structure was begun in 1855 and had the tower and sanctuary complete by 1858, with the basement being completed in 1868, and the spire being added in 1870, and a parish hall being added in the late 19th Century to the side of the original structure. In 1885, the church ceiling was lowered to make heating the interior more efficient. In the 1920s, the building was expanded to the rear with an addition that enlarged the area around the altar and added a cross-gable roof and a small chapel along Carroll Street. In the mid-20th Century, a modernist sandstone-clad addition was built to the side of the parish house, which created a mostly enclosed courtyard between the three buildings that is open to Washington Avenue. The building’s exterior is clad in sandstone blocks, with gothic arched window and door openings, buttresses, a gable roof with parapets, a tower at the east corner of the building with multiple tiers and corner buttresses, gothic arched door openings, and an octagonal hipped spire topped with a finial, a rear addition with a cross-gable roof on the portion to the rear of the original gabled roof and a shorter low-slope roof to the rear of the original side entrance vestibule, and a parish house with a hipped roof, gothic arched windows, rusticated sandstone exterior, front gable with decorative wooden trim, and a porch with gothic arches and wooden columns. The interior of the church features plaster walls, a wooden roof with hammer beam trusses with quatrefoil motifs and pointed arches, decorative chandeliers, a gothic arched proscenium arch at the altar, a carved wooden prayer screen, stone trim at the windows, wooden pews, and a vaulted ceiling above the altar. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, owing to its historical and architectural significance, and continues to house the Grace Episcopal congregation that originally built the building. |
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| Source | Historical Marker, Grace Episcopal Church, Washington Avenue and Carroll Street, Madison, WI |
| Author | Warren LeMay from Covington, KY, United States |
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