All Saints Church and Rectory
- Architect
- John C. Cochrane
- Year
- 1883
- Style
- Stick Style
- City
- Chicago, IL
All Saints Church and Rectory is an Episcopal church at 4550 N. Hermitage Avenue, built in 1883 to designs by architect John C. Cochrane. It's Chicago's oldest wood-frame church, raised in Stick style at a corner that then sat outside city limits — beyond the reach of the fire ordinance that banned wood construction inside Chicago after 1871.
the building
Wood by necessity. The congregation built in wood because stone was too costly and because the site sat just outside Chicago's city limits, where the post-1871 fire ordinance banning wood construction didn't apply. Vertical board siding and decorative shingles mark it as Stick style, a mode rarely seen in Chicago today.
the style
Stick style is named for the exposed vertical, horizontal, and diagonal boards applied to a building's exterior to suggest its underlying wood frame. All Saints is one of the few surviving examples of the style in Chicago, distinguished by its decorative shingle work.
More on Stick Stylesignificance
All Saints was designated a Chicago Landmark on December 27, 1982. Its stained glass windows were originally designed by the Healy & Millet firm.
nearby
- Getty Tomb
- Krause Music Store
- Davis Theater
- Uptown Theatre
- Epworth United Methodist Church
- (Former) Lyman Trumbull Public School Building