St. Peter's Episcopal Church (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

Infobox religious building
building_name=St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church


image_size=300px
caption=St. Peter's at Forbes and Craft, Pittsburgh
location=Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
status=deconsecrated 1986
status_functional=demolished
religious_affiliation=Episcopal
state=Pennsylvania
municipality=Pittsburgh
consecration_year=1851, reconstructed 1901
architecture=yes
architect=John Notman
architecture_type=parish church
architecture_style=archaeologicical phase of Gothic Revival
facade_direction=
spire_quantity=1
spire_height=
material=stone

St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was an early example of the archaeological phase of Gothic Revival architecture, designed by the Philadelphia architect John Notman. It was originally built in 1851 at the corner of Grant and Diamond as an overflow church or "chapel of ease" for Trinity Episcopal. The church and its site were purchased by Henry Clay Frick. The building itself was donated back to the congregation. It was dismantled, the stones numbered, and taken up Forbes Avenue in horsedrawn wagons to the corner of Forbes Avenue and Craft, where it was reconstructed in 1901. It received a plaque from the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation, The church was deconsecrated in September 1989, and the building was demolished. [ [http://www.shire.net/osl/buildings.htm A Brief History of OSL’s Buildings ] ]

References

*James D. Trump, American Building Series No. 1 St. Peter's, Pittsburgh, by John Notman, "The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians", vol. 15, pp. 19-23 (May, 1956)