
The earliest and by far the most elegant of the West Park retirement buildings is Kearsley Home, formerly known as the Christ Church Hospital—meaning essentially a hospice. Built as a home for retired ministers of the Episcopal Church, it was designed by the city's most adventurous new talent of the 1850s, evidenced by the early use of Victorian-era colorism, here the polychromed voussoirs above the windows. The main block with its projecting buttresses, pointed windows, and central tower heralded the coming Victorian Gothic. A plaque memorializing Gries in the entrance