Grace Universalist Church

Not to be confused with Lowell's St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church.

Grace Universalist Church
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	44 Princeton Boulevard Lowell, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°38′07″N71°19′58″W / 42.63528°N 71.33278°W / 42.63528; -71.33278
Built	1895-6
NRHP reference No.	11000069 [1]
Added to NRHP	March 11, 2011

Grace Universalist Church is a historic church building at 44 Princeton Boulevard in Lowell, Massachusetts. Built in 1896, the building housed a Universalist congregation until 1973, when it was sold to a Greek Orthodox congregation. It is now known as the St. George Hellenic Orthodox Church. The building is a 2+1⁄2-story brick structure, with an eclectic mix of Romanesque, Beaux Arts, and Classical Revival details. Its single most notable feature is a 70-foot (21 m) masonry dome designed by Rafael Guastavino Sr. and supervised by Rafael Guastavino Jr. in 1895. ^[2]

The church is significant as a very early tile vaulted dome built by the immigrant architects Rafael Guastavino Sr. and Jr. in the United States. ^[3] The church building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. ^[1]

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Lowell, Massachusetts
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Middlesex County, Massachusetts

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
2. "NRHP nomination for Grace Universalist Church". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-01-28.
3. Ochsendorf, John (2020-03-01). "Tile Vaulting Innovations by Rafael Guastavino Jr. and Eduardo Torroja" . Journal of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures. 61 (1): 59–66. doi:10.20898/j.iass.2020.203.021. ISSN   1028-365X.