St. Andrew's Episcopal Church (Albany, New York)
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St. Andrew's Episcopal Church is located at North Main and Madison (U.S. Route 20) avenues in Albany, New York, United States. It is a complex of three buildings, centered on the church itself, a stone structure designed by architect Norman Sturgis in the Late Gothic Revival architectural style and built in 1930. In 2005 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[4]
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church | |
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Religion | |
Affiliation | Episcopal Church |
Leadership | The Rev. Mary Robinson White |
Year consecrated | 1947[1] |
Location | |
Location | Albany, NY, USA |
Geographic coordinates | 42°39′53″N 73°47′17″W |
Architecture | |
Architect(s) | Norman R. Sturgis; Fred Eckel Jr.[2] |
Style | Late Gothic Revival |
Groundbreaking | 1930 |
Completed | 1931 |
Construction cost | $250,000[3] |
Specifications | |
Direction of façade | South |
Materials | stone, tile, copper |
U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
Added to NRHP | January 7, 2005 |
NRHP Reference no. | 04001447[4] |
Website | |
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Albany, NY |
The congregation was established by a downtown church, St. Paul's, from a neighborhood mission near the end of the 19th century. It was one of the first churches started in the suburban areas of the city, as it expanded away from its historic core. St. Andrew's soon built its own church (since demolished to make room for the current attached parish house) and established itself as a separate parish.
Sturgis' structure was meant to embody the ideals of his mentor, Ralph Adams Cram, which valued the English Gothic styles as ideal for Episcopal and Anglican worship since such buildings were where it had originally been practiced. Accordingly, it is modeled in part on St. Albans Abbey in Hertfordshire, England, and a Roman brick from that location was placed in the hyphen between the church and the parish hall. But it is not an exact copy, and Sturgis himself described it as "an attempt to express fundamental truths in a new way to tell an old, old story in new words". It is considered one of the best examples of the 20th-century Late Gothic Revival style in Albany.