St. Paul's Episcopal Church | |
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| Location | 423 Clinton Street Brooklyn,New York City |
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| Coordinates | 40°40′55″N73°58′25″W / 40.68194°N 73.97361°W /40.68194; -73.97361 |
| Built | 1867-1884[2] |
| Architect | Richard Upjohn & Son Ralph Adams Cram |
| Architectural style | High Victorian Gothic[2] |
| NRHP reference No. | 89002086[1] |
| Added to NRHP | December 21, 1989 |
St. Paul's Episcopal Church of Brooklyn at 423 Clinton Street at Carroll Street in theCarroll Gardens neighborhood ofBrooklyn,New York City was built from 1867 to 1884 and was designed byRichard Upjohn & Son[2] in theHigh Victorian Gothic style. It was added to theNational Register of Historic Places in 1989.[1]
The parish is part of theEpiscopal Church in the United States of America in theEpiscopal Diocese of Long Island, part of the worldwideAnglican Communion, in theAnglo-Catholic tradition.
St. Paul's was founded on Christmas Day of 1849, inSouth Brooklyn, then the quickly developing southward expansion of oldBrooklyn Heights. New homes and businesses were covering old countryside, farmland, and shoreline;industrialization was bringing a new way of life to theCity of Brooklyn, waves of immigrants from the nations of the world were arriving and theAmerican Civil War was looming. This was also the era when theAnglican Communion of Churches was experiencing a renewed vision of their catholic faith and order often called the "Anglo-Catholic Revival" of theOxford Movement. Saint Paul's was formed in heady days of philosophical, social, economic, and religious change.[3]
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