Trinity Episcopal Church (Lenox, Massachusetts)

Trinity Episcopal Church
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Trinity Episcopal Church
Location	Lenox, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°21′16″N 73°16′56″W / 42.35444°N 73.28222°WCoordinates: 42°21′16″N 73°16′56″W / 42.35444°N 73.28222°W
Built	1888
Architect	Auchmuty, R.T.; McKim, Mead & White
Architectural style	Romanesque
NRHP Reference #	96000363 [1]
Added to NRHP	April 4, 1996

Trinity Episcopal Church is an historic Episcopal church building at 88 Walker Street in Lenox, Massachusetts.

History

It was built in 1888 in the Gothic Revival style for the use of a congregation composed in part of the wealthy summer visitors to The Berkshires, who funded its construction. The church was the location of society weddings. For example, on June 6, 1895, James A. Burden II, an heir to the Burden Iron Works, wed Florence Adele Sloan, a direct descendant of Cornelius Vanderbilt, in this church.^[2]

In 1990, New England Magazine wrote that "few cities can boast churches of greater beauty".^[3]

Architectural significance

The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.^[1]

Notable people

• Robert Shaw Sturgis Whitman, rector

References

1. Staff (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
2. "A Love Match. An American Heiress is Content to Dwell in Her Native Land With an American Male. A Wedding Which Has Cost an Expenditure of a Round Million--A Vanderbilt Gathering.". The Wichita Beacon. 6 June 1895. p. 1. Retrieved August 4, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
3. "MACRIS inventory record for Trinity Episcopal Church". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2013-12-05.

External links

• Trinity Episcopal Church