You are here

Western Pennsylvania » Ridge and Valley » Huntingdon County » Huntingdon and Vicinity » St. John's Episcopal Church

St. John's Episcopal Church

-A A +A
1845, Charles B. Callahan. 212 Penn St.
  • (Lawrence Biemiller)
  • (Lawrence Biemiller)

This stuccoed brick church is dominated by a square central tower flanked by flat-roofed wings with elongated lancet windows. It is a hybrid style with Egyptian Revival massing and cornice and Gothic Revival windows, entrance, and blind arcade. Its mid-1840s building date places it after two famous John Haviland buildings in Philadelphia, the Eastern State Penitentiary (1821–1836), with lancet windows and square castellated towers, and his Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Company (1838) in the Egyptian Revival mode. Add to this, Thomas U. Walter's Egyptian Revival debtor's wing of the Philadelphia County Prison (1835), and it is likely that Charles Callahan was looking to Philadelphia for his inspiration. The church has massing similar to the county jails of Ebensburg ( CA3), Clarion ( CL2), and Hollidaysburg ( BL3), two of which (Ebensburg and Hollidaysburg) were designed by Edward Haviland, John's son.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Lu Donnelly et al.
×

Data

What's Nearby

Huntingdon County Courthouse
Speer House (Dorsey House)
Huntingdon Library and Huntingdon County Historical Society (McMurtrie Houses)
Mutual Benefit Insurance Group (Dorris, Scott, and Snare Houses)
Huntingdon County Chamber of Commerce (Union Depot and Hunt Signal Tower)

Citation

Lu Donnelly et al., "St. John's Episcopal Church", [Huntingdon, Pennsylvania], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/PA-01-HU2.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of PA vol 1

Buildings of Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania, Lu Donnelly, H. David Brumble IV, and Franklin Toker. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010, 357-357.

If SAH Archipedia has been useful to you, please consider supporting it.

SAH Archipedia tells the story of the United States through its buildings, landscapes, and cities. This freely available resource empowers the public with authoritative knowledge that deepens their understanding and appreciation of the built environment. But the Society of Architectural Historians, which created SAH Archipedia with University of Virginia Press, needs your support to maintain the high-caliber research, writing, photography, cartography, editing, design, and programming that make SAH Archipedia a trusted online resource available to all who value the history of place, heritage tourism, and learning.

,