St. Andrew's Episcopal Church | |
Location | 2015 Glenarm Place Denver, Colorado |
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Coordinates | 39°44′53″N104°59′5″W / 39.74806°N 104.98472°W |
Area | 0.5 acres (0.20 ha) |
Built | c.1907-1909 |
Architect | Ralph Adams Cram |
Architectural style | Gothic |
NRHP reference No. | 75000512 [1] |
CSRHP No. | 5DV.116 |
Added to NRHP | March 18, 1975 |
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church is an Anglo-catholic church in Denver, Colorado, United States. It is a Gothic style church built c.1907-1909 that was designed by architect Ralph Adams Cram. It was dedicated January 17, 1909 as Trinity Memorial Church and was renamed to St. Andrews in 1917. [2]
The distinguished architect Cram, of Cram and Ferguson in Boston, Massachusetts, was commissioned to design the building for Alexis Dupont Parker as a memorial to his wife. Parker was a magnate of the Colorado and Southern Railway who was educated in the Episcopal ministry, and was president of the board of the Colorado diocese of the Episcopal Church. [2]
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. [1]
Expanded in 2008 to a design in keeping with Cram's original plans for a larger church, St. Andrew's now seats 175 in a sanctuary that includes works by Denver artists Marion Buchan and Albert Byron Olson. The parish house is by Denver architect Jacques Benedict.
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