Grace Episcopal Church - Pike Road, Alabama
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Grace Episcopal Church is a nineteenth century church on the outskirts of Montgomery, Alabama. It is a small church which reflects its rural roots.
Waymark Code: WMDAYF
Location: Alabama, United States
Date Posted: 12/16/2011
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Grace Episcopal Church traces its history back to the 1850s. At that time the unincorporated area called Mount Meigs was a tiny farming community near Montgomery. Now the expanding suburbs are reaching out in that direction, but the church still retains the feel of the country. Pennsylvania architect Joseph W. Pierson prepared the plans and submitted them in April, 1861, but the onset of the Civil War prevented any action being taken. When resources were finally gathered in the 1890s, the congregation built the church using the original plans, a "Gothic Revival" style used by many rural Southern Episcopal Churches before the Civil War.
The text of the historical marker at the driveway entrance reads:
In the late 1850s the cluster of Episcopal families around Mt. Meigs undertook to build a church and engaged Pennsylvania architect Joseph W. Pierson to prepare the plans. The plans were submitted in April 1861, but due to the hardships caused by the Civil War and its aftermath, it was over 30 years before the church was actually built. Finally becoming a reality in 1893, Grace Church was constructed according to Pierson's original plans in the "Gothic Revival" style popular for rural Episcopal churches all across the South during the 1850s. The auxiliary buildings and the church gardens are of a much more recent construction to reflect the style of the original sanctuary.
Street address:
906 Pike Road
Pike Road, Alabama USA
36064
County / Borough / Parish: Montgomery
Year listed: 1982
Historic (Areas of) Significance: Event, Architecture/Engineering
Periods of significance: 1875-1899
Historic function: Religion
Current function: Religious Structure
Privately owned?: yes
Primary Web Site: [Web Link]
Secondary Website 1: [Web Link]
Season start / Season finish: Not listed
Hours of operation: Not listed
Secondary Website 2: Not listed
National Historic Landmark Link: Not listed
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