Grace Reformed Church, Sunday School, & Parish House
- Architect
- Paul J. Pelz
- City
- Washington, DC
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Grace Reformed Church, at 1405 15th Street NW, was designed by Paul J. Pelz, co-architect of the Library of Congress. Construction on the current building began in 1902, with Vice President Theodore Roosevelt laying the cornerstone; Roosevelt, by then president, gave the address at its 1903 dedication and attended services there regularly during his term.
the architect
Paul J. Pelz was co-architect of the Library of Congress, one of Washington's grandest late nineteenth-century commissions.
significance
The church is a designated DC Historic Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The original congregation, organized in 1877, later left the building, which by the 2010s was rented to Christ Reformed Church and the Community Church of Washington, D.C.
nearby
- United States Daughters of 1812 National Headquarters
- Saint Luke's Episcopal Church
- Carnegie Institution of Washington, Administration Building
- Robert Simpson Woodward House
- Brodhead-Bell-Morton House (Levi P. Morton House)
- Bethune, Mary McLeod, Council House (Nat'l Council of Negro Women)