Grace Church - Newark, NJ, USA
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N 40° 43.858 W 074° 10.478
18T E 569695 N 4509219
Grace Church - Historic Site
Waymark Code: WMHN23
Location: New Jersey, United States
Date Posted: 07/25/2013
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This marker reads:
HISTORIC SITE
GRACE CHURCH
Newark's second oldest Episcopal parish was founded in 1837. The Architect of the present brown freestone building, completed in 1848, was the famed Richard Upjohn, a master of English Gothic Style. In 1882 Samuel A. Ward, a choir master here, composed a hymn tune that later became the melody of "America the Beautiful". Since the 19th century the Grace Church has been noted for its coral music and Anglo-Catholic worship. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1988.
THE NEWARK PRESERVATION AND LANDMARKS COMMITTEE