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St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Fifteenth & Church Streets Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

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St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Fifteenth & Church Streets Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

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Summary

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 black political and social, as well as religious life.
Survey number: HABS DC-359
Building/structure dates: ca. 1880 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1890 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1902 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1960 Subsequent Work
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 76002131

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Date

1933 - 1960
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Contributors

Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Crummell, Alexander
Brent, Calvin T, S
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Location

Washington, District of Columbia, United States38.91039, -77.03670
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Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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