Church of the Epiphany

Chicago, United States

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The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

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Located at 201 South Ashland Avenue in Chicago, the Church of the Epiphany is a Richardsonian Romanesque structure completed in 1885 to accommodate the growing congregation of an Episcopal parish. Architect Francis Meredyth Whitehouse of the Chicago firm Burling and Whitehouse designed the building with a distinctive sandstone exterior of roughly faced, irregularly coursed blocks quarried from Lake Superior. Heavy arches supported by short columns with floral ornaments frame the entrances and windows, while a bell tower, finished in 1887, rises above the front corner, displaying patterned sections of smooth and rough stone with arched openings near its crown. The church later became known for its outreach work when it established St. Gregory Episcopal School in 1962, an elementary institution using a traditional boy choir educational model to serve the surrounding neighborhood. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.