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St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church and Rectory

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1896, A. P. Gladden. E. Water St. at Merrick Ln.

On the hillside the Gothic Revival Catholic church is a wooden building with a central entrance tower and a louvered belfry. It has an interior noted for ten murals painted in 1919 by Cincinatti artist George Brouche. Shockey and Gladden were contractors for the church. The two-story foursquare frame rectory (c. 1908, T. T. Carter) is adjacent to the church.

Similar in style to the church is the nearby Pocahontas Baptist Church (1882; 74 E. Water), one of several churches built by the company. Like several others, the church is a simple frame gable-end building with a projecting gabled front vestibule, triangular window arches that convey a modest Gothic Revival flavor, and a louvered gabled front belfry with a modest steeple.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Anne Carter Lee
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What's Nearby

Pocahontas Cemetery
Centre Street and Water Street
Pocahontas Exhibition Mine and Museum
Lathrop House
Old City Hall and Opera House

Citation

Anne Carter Lee, "St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church and Rectory", [Pocahontas, Virginia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/VA-02-TZ17.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of Virginia vol 2

Buildings of Virginia: Valley, Piedmont, Southside, and Southwest, Anne Carter Lee and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015, 490-490.

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