1894 - Counseling Center - Former St. Andrews Episcopal Chapel - Woonsocket, Rhode Island
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BruceS
N 42° 00.063 W 071° 31.871
19T E 290369 N 4652992
Historic former Episcopal chapel in Woonsocket, Rhode Island.
Waymark Code: WM57QC
Location: Rhode Island, United States
Date Posted: 11/24/2008
Views: 7
"St Andrews Chapel is a good example of small-scale Late Victorian picturesque architecture unusual for it polychrome pressed brick construction and noteworthy for the clarity, economy and unity of its design. It is also significant for the labor and materials neighborhood residents and parishioners donated to make its construction possible.
St. Andrews was built as a mission chapel by St. James Episcopal Parish of Woonsocket in 1894 to serve the new and growing working-class Fairmount neighborhood. The Fairmount Land Company donated the lot for the chapel. Woonsocket architect and St. James parishioner George Spaulding donated the plans and building specifications The Granite Pressed Brick Company, also of Woonsocket, donated the unusual pressed concrete brick used in the building. Edgar M. Slocum did the painting free of charge. The chapel's bell was a gift from Mark Hough and in 1897 Gilbert & Butler of Boston gave the pipe organ." - Woonsocket MRA NRHP documentation pg 73.
After the Episcopal church left the building it was used by various denominations the last of which is the Seventh Day Adventists. The building is now used as a holistic counseling center.
Year of construction: 1894
Cross-listed waymark: [Web Link]
Full inscription:
A.D. 1894
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