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Item Title
St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Fifteenth & Church Streets Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC
LocationFifteenth & Church Streets Northwest,
Washington, DC
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS DC-359
Building/structure dates:
1880 initial construction
Building/structure dates:
1890 subsequent work
Building/structure dates:
1902 subsequent work
Building/structure dates:
1960 subsequent work
National Register Number: 76002131
Significance: Tradition associates Calvin T.S. Brent (1854-1899), Washington's earliest known black architect, with the design of this church. St. Luke's rivals Mount Zion United Methodist Church in Georgetown as Washington's oldest surviving church building built for a black congregation. St. Luke's also stands as a reminder of the post Civil War period of Afro-American history when the institution of the church was unrivaled as the center of the Negro's political and social, as well as religious life.
Subjects
Episcopal Churches
Related Names
Crummell, Rev. Alexander
Brent, Calvin T. S.
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. EAST (FRONT) FACADE
2. EAST AND NORTH FACADES
3. NORTH FACADE
4. DETAIL, EAST ENTRANCE
5. INTERIOR LOOKING WEST
6. INTERIOR LOOKING NORTH
7. INTERIOR LOOKING NORTHEAST
8. DETAIL OF ALTAR, WEST WALL
9. DETAIL OF WINDOW ON WEST WALL, NORTH OF ALTAR
10. DETAIL OF CEILING
11. DETAIL OF VAULT SUPPORT
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