St. Mark's Episcopal Church (West Orange, New Jersey)
Historic church in New Jersey, United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
St. Mark's Episcopal Church is a historic church located at 13 Main Street at Valley Road in West Orange, Essex County, New Jersey, United States. After the Episcopal congregation dwindled, the building subsequently housed the Primera Iglesia Evangelica Metodista Libra de los Oranges, a Methodist congregation. The building's interior was destroyed, and exterior badly damaged, by fire on January 1, 2016.[3]
St. Mark's Episcopal Church | |
Location | 13 Main Street, West Orange, New Jersey |
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Coordinates | 40°46′37″N 74°14′20″W |
Area | 2.5 acres (1.0 ha) |
Built | 1828 |
Architect | Upjohn, Richard M. |
Architectural style | Gothic Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 77000868[1] |
NJRHP No. | [2] |
Added to NRHP | September 22, 1977 |
The church was called an "outstanding example of Gothic Revival architecture" by Preservation New Jersey, and was listed as one of the ten most endangered historic sites in New Jersey in 1996.[4] It has been said that the building "represents the beginning and the end of the ecclesiological style in the United States."[5] The Ecclesiological style movement in church architecture advocated Gothic revival architecture using theological arguments.