St. John's Episcopal Church (Tallahassee, Florida)
St. John's Episcopal Church | |
Location | 211 N. Monroe St., Tallahassee, Florida |
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Coordinates | 30°26′37″N 84°16′49″W / 30.44361°N 84.28028°W |
Built | 1881 |
Architectural style | Late Gothic Revival |
Website | https://www.saint-john.org/ |
NRHP reference No. | 78000951[1] |
Added to NRHP | August 10, 1978 |
St. John's Episcopal Church is an historic church in Tallahassee, Florida. It is located at 211 North Monroe Street. On August 10, 1978, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
The church body was first constituted in 1829. Services were held in the old Leon County court house on Monroe Street from 1829 to 1837. From 1837 to 1879 services were held in first church building at the same site. This building was consecrated in 1838, but eventually burned down in 1879. Services resumed in the court house, which also eventually burned down, and then in the capitol building, during the erection of present Gothic style, red brick church, erected in 1880 and dedicated in 1888. This building still stands, with art glass and memorial glass windows, pipe organ, bronze memorial tablet, altar service, bronze memorial tablet, altar service, carved lectern, prie-dieu, carillon. The church owns its rectory.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ "Saint John's Episcopal Church". Florida Memory. Retrieved March 12, 2016.
External links
[edit]- Leon County listings at National Register of Historic Places
- Florida's Office of Cultural and Historical Programs
- Churches completed in 1881
- Towers completed in 1881
- Episcopal church buildings in Florida
- National Register of Historic Places in Tallahassee, Florida
- Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Florida
- Churches in Tallahassee, Florida
- Towers in Florida
- Bell towers in the United States
- History of Tallahassee, Florida
- Churches in Leon County, Florida
- 19th-century Episcopal church buildings
- 1881 establishments in Florida
- Big Bend Region, Florida Registered Historic Place stubs
- Leon County, Florida, geography stubs
- United States Anglican church stubs
- Florida church stubs
- Tallahassee, Florida stubs