St. Andrew's Episcopal Church (Denver, Colorado)

St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
Location 2015 Glenarm Place
Denver, Colorado
Coordinates 39°44′53″N 104°59′5″W / 39.74806°N 104.98472°W / 39.74806; -104.98472Coordinates: 39°44′53″N 104°59′5″W / 39.74806°N 104.98472°W / 39.74806; -104.98472
Area 0.5 acres (0.20 ha)
Built c.1907-1909
Architect Ralph Adams Cram
Architectural style Gothic
NRHP Reference # 75000512[1]
CSRHP # 5DV.116
Added to NRHP March 18, 1975

St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, is an Anglo-catholic church in Denver, Colorado. Its building, "considered by many people to be one of Denver's most beautiful churches" is a Gothic style church built c.1907-1909 that was designed by architect Ralph Adams Cram. It was dedicated January 17, 1909 as Trinity Memorial Church and renamed to St. Andrews in 1917.[2]

The distinguished architect Cram, of Cram and Ferguson in Boston, Massachusetts, was commissioned to design the building for Alexis Dupont Parker as a memorial to his wife. Parker was a "railroad magnate" of the Colorado and Southern Railway who was educated in the Episcopal Ministry and was president of the board of the Colorado diocese of the Episcopal Church.[2]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.[1]

Expanded in 2008 to a design in keeping with Cram's original plans for a larger church, St. Andrew's now seats 175 in a sanctuary that includes works by Denver artists Marion Buchan and Albert Byron Olson. The parish house is by Denver architect Jules Jacques Benedict.

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Saint Andrews Episcopal Church / originally built as Trinity Memorial Church" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved July 2016. Check date values in: |access-date= (help) with two photos from 1974


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