St. Luke's Episcopal Church (Cahaba, Alabama)
St. Luke's Episcopal Church | |
Location | Cahaba, Alabama, United States |
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Coordinates | 32°19′9″N 87°6′19″W / 32.31917°N 87.10528°W |
Built | 1854, moved 1876 & 2006–2007 |
NRHP reference No. | 82002008[1] |
Added to NRHP | March 25, 1982 |
St. Luke's Episcopal Church is a historic Carpenter Gothic church, built during the 1850s at Cahaba, the first capital of Alabama from 1820 to 1826. The unknown builder closely followed plans published by architect Richard Upjohn in his 1852 book Rural Architecture.[2]
Exterior features of the
History
St. Luke's was built in 1854, during Cahaba's antebellum boom years, on Vine Street near the intersection of Vine and 1st South Street. Following the post-war decline of Cahaba, the church was dismantled in 1878 and moved 11 miles (18 km) to the village of Martin's Station, where it was reassembled and continued to serve an
During the academic year 2006–2007, students from Auburn University's Rural Project carefully dismantled the church building so that it could be moved back to Cahaba and reassembled at Old Cahawba Archaeological Park.[4] From 2007 to 2008 the students reassembled the building at Cahaba, near the corner of Beech Street and Capitol Street, across from the Old Cahawba Archaeological Park visitor center.[4][5] This third site was chosen because the original one on Vine Street was found to be located in a floodplain. Most of the exterior work was completed by late 2009.[3]
See also
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ ISBN 0-8173-1134-3.
- ^ a b "St. Luke's Episcopal Church". HMdb.org: The Historical Marker Database. Retrieved 2010-06-22.
- ^ a b Leytham, Tammy (2007-03-18). "Auburn students reconstruct St. Luke's Episcopal Church". Selma Times Journal.
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(help) - ^ "Rural Studio 2nd Year". Auburn University School of Architecture Rural Studio. Archived from the original on 2008-01-18. Retrieved 2008-01-09.
External links
- Old Cahawba: "Alabama's most famous Ghost Town"
- Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. AL-734, "St. Luke's Episcopal Church, (Moved from Cahaba, AL), Martin, Dallas County, AL", 4 photos, 7 measured drawings, 6 data pages