Historic Structures

Structures of the type Church

Adas Israel Synagogue, Washington DC

The building was the first synagogue erected in the District of Columbia.

The history of the Adas Israel Congregation dates back to the years immediately following the Civil War. When the first Hebrew Congregation organized in Washington instituted certain liturgical reforms, the more conservative members withdrew and established the Adas Israel Congregation in 1869.

More...


All Saints' Episcopal Cathedral, Milwaukee Wisconsin

All Saints' is one of the nation's earliest Episcopal cathedrals. Gothic Revival in style, it is one of Milwaukee's older surviving churches and an important early work of the architect, Edward Townsend Mix. Noteworthy features of the interior are the stained glass windows, dating largely from the nineteenth century and forming, through the consistency of their compositions and color schemes--dominated by deep, rich hues--an exceptionally harmonious ensemble.

The edifice was built as Olivet Congregational Church, and, according to a contemporary newspaper account, it was acquired by the Milwaukee Episcopal diocese June 1, 1872 for $35,000. Contracts for the construction of Olivet Church were signed on July 16, 1868, and the cornerstone laid on August 27 of that year. Dedication services were held in November of the following year. The Milwaukee Sentinel for November 26, 1869, reports that the church, lots, and organ cost, in all, some $66,000.

More...


Basilica of St. Josaphat, Milwaukee Wisconsin

This grand, imposing, richly ornamented Neo-Renaissance edifice is a major landmark of Milwaukee's south side, the only Roman Catholic basilica in Wisconsin, and one of the nation's most important Polish-American churches.

Many of the materials used in the construction of St. Josaphat's originally constituted Chicago's Federal Building. The transformation from public building to church came about as follows. By the mid-1890s Father William Grutza and his parishioners at St. Josaphat's agreed that the parish needed a new church and retained Erhard Brielmaier to draw the plans. While his work was in progress. Father Grutza travelled to Chicago, where he learned that the aging Federal Building was soon to be razed and the materials offered for sale. Aware that the parish could realize a considerable savings if salvaged materials were used, he asked Brielmaier if he would modify his plans accordingly (the architect's original scheme called for a brick building trimmed with terra cotta). Brielmaier complied, and for $20,000 Father Grutza purchased stone for the walls, polished granite columns for the front portico, doors, hardware, bronze railings, and light fixtures and had them transported to Milwaukee on five hundred railway flatcars. Inspected, measured, sorted, and numbered, all these materials eventually found places in the new building.

More...

 Calvary Episcopal Church, Homer New York

 Calvary Presbyterian Church, Milwaukee Wisconsin

 Central Presbyterian Church, Denver Colorado

 Chapel of St. Mary The Virgin, Nashotah Wisconsin

 Christ Church, Washington DC

 Church of the Assumption (Roman Catholic), St. Paul Minnesota

 Church of the Holy Cross, Troy New York

 Church of the Redeemer, Provincetown Massachusetts

 Congregational (now First Unitarian) Church, New Bedford Massachusetts

 First Church of Deerfield, Deerfield Village Massachusetts

 First Congregational Church, Truro Massachusetts

 First Congregational Church, Vermontville Michigan

 First Presbyterian Church, Cairo New York

 First Presbyterian Church, Rochester New York

 First Reformed Dutch Church, Fishkill New York

 First Unitarian Church, Milwaukee Wisonsin

 First Universalist Church, Rochester New York

 Fordham Manor Reformed Church, Bronx New York

 Fort Herkimer Church, Herkimer New York

 Friends Meeting House, New Bedford Massachusetts

 Friends Meeting House, Newport Rhode Island

 German Presbyterian Bethlehem Church (Little Bethlehem Church), St Paul Minnesota

 Holy Trinity Church, Milwaukee Wisconsin

 Immaculate Conception Church, Burlington Wisconsin

 Immanuel Presbyterian Church, Milwaukee Wisconsin

 Indian Castle Church, Fort Hendrick Danube New York

 Jonathan Child House (Church of Christ Scientist), Rochester New York

 Log Church, Sawyer Minnesota

 Minneapolis New Church Society, Minneapolis Minnesota

 Nine Partners Meeting House, Millbrook New York

 Plymouth Church, Brooklyn New York

 Saint Michaels Mission, Hillyard, Spokane County, Washington

 Seaman's Bethel Church, New Bedford Massachusetts

 Second Congregational Church, Newport Rhode Island

 Southport Congregational Church, Southport Connecticut

 St. James Episcopal Church, Milwaukee Wisconsin

 St. John Chrysostom Church, Delafield Wisconsin

 St. John's Episcopal Church, Ashfield Massachusetts

 St. Katherine's Episcopal Chapel, Williamston Township Michigan

 St. Louis Roman Catholic Church, Buffalo New York

 St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Metuchen New Jersey

 St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Rochester New York

 St. Mary's Church, Milwaukee Wisconsin

 St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral, Buffalo New York

 St. Paul's Episcopal Church and Parish House, Milwaukee Wisconsin

 St. Stanislaus Church, Milwaukee Wisconsin

 Touro Synagogue, Congregation Jeshuat Israel, Newport Rhode Island

 Trinity Chapel, Excelsior Minnesota

 Trinity Church, Fishkill New York

 Trinity Church, Newport Rhode Island

 Trinity Church, Southport Connecticut

 Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Milwaukee Wisconsin

 Trinity Parish (Protestant Episcopal) Chapel, Southport Connecticut

 United Congregational Church, Newport Rhode Island

 United Presbyterian Church, Perth New York

 Wesley Methodist Church, Watertown Wisconsin

 West Parish Congregational Church, Barnstable Massachusetts