All Saints Memorial Church

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All Saints Memorial Church
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Location Providence, Rhode Island
Coordinates 41°49′5″N71°25′9″W / 41.81806°N 71.41917°W / 41.81806; -71.41917 Coordinates: 41°49′5″N71°25′9″W / 41.81806°N 71.41917°W / 41.81806; -71.41917
Area1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built1869
Architect Edward Tuckerman Potter; Gorham Henshaw
Architectural styleGothic, Tudor Revival
MPS Elmwood MRA
NRHP reference No. 80000083 [1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 7, 1980

All Saints Memorial Church is a historic Episcopal church at 674 Westminster Street in Federal Hill, Providence, Rhode Island. The current church building, a large brownstone structure with a flat-topped tower, was designed by architect Edward Tuckerman Potter in a Gothic, Tudor Revival style, and built from 1869 to 1872. It is the largest Episcopal church building in the state, and its only known Potter-designed church. The accompanying (now-demolished) parish house is a Tudor Revival structure designed by Gorham Henshaw and built in 1909. [2]

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The church building added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  2. "Providence-Elmwood Multiple Resources Area nomination (PDF pages 68,75)" (PDF). Rhode Island Preservation. Retrieved 2014-10-07.

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