St. James Episcopal Church
- Architect
- Henry Martyn Congdon
- Year
- 1888
- Style
- Richardsonian Romanesque
- City
- Boston, MA
- Collection
- richardson romanesque
St. James's Episcopal Church traces to a mission founded from Christ Church in 1864; the current Richardsonian Romanesque building at 1991 Massachusetts Avenue went up in 1888-89 to a design by Henry M. Congdon, replacing the Davenport Tavern that had stood on the site since about 1757. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
the building
Built on a colonial tavern site. The church occupies the former site of the Davenport Tavern, a Cambridge landmark that stood there from about 1757; a portion of the old tavern was relocated to Somerville, where it still stands today.
the style
Congdon designed the church in the Richardsonian Romanesque idiom that dominated American church architecture in the late 1880s, giving the parish its present building of 1888-89.
More on Richardsonian Romanesquesignificance
The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
nearby
- Chester Kingsley House
- Clifton Bacon House
- North Avenue Congregational Church
- Isaac McLean House
- Stillman F. Kelley House
- St. John's Roman Catholic Church