Grace Church (Grace Protestant Episcopal Church)
- Style
- Gothic Revival
- City
- Washington, DC
Grace Episcopal Church is a Gothic Revival church built in 1867 at 1041 Wisconsin Avenue NW, in Georgetown. Historically known as Grace Protestant Episcopal Church and also called the Mission Church for Canal Boatmen, it was built to serve the boatmen and laborers who worked below on the C&O Canal. It remains an active Episcopal parish today.
the building
Mission Church for Canal Boatmen. The church's alternate name points to its original congregation: the boatmen who worked the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal just downhill from the church's Wisconsin Avenue site.
the style
Built in the Gothic Revival style typical of small 19th-century American parish churches, with pointed forms borrowed from medieval English precedent.
More on Gothic Revivalsignificance
The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 6, 1971, under its historic name, Grace Protestant Episcopal Church, and is also a designated DC Historic Landmark.
nearby
- City Tavern
- Old Stone House
- Georgetown Custom House and Post Office
- Beall, Thomas, House (Newton D. Baker House)
- Forrest-Marbury House
- Saint John's Church, Georgetown