BGuthrie Photos: MD -- Baltimore -- Old St. Paul's Church

MD -- Baltimore -- Old St. Paul's Church:

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Description of Subject Matter: Old St. Paul's was one of the original 30 parishes established in Maryland by the Church of England in 1692. The parish predates the founding of Baltimore City itself in 1729. The first church building was a log cabin structure on the banks of the Colgate Creek near present-day Dundalk in southeast Baltimore County. By the 1720s, it became clear that the major population center of the colony would be further north and west, so the Maryland Assembly was called upon to lay out what they termed Baltimore Town. At this time, the parish vestry purchased a lot for a new church building in the newly-formed village. The site was a choice piece of property encompassing the highest point overlooking the harbor. The current church occupies the northwestern-most corner of this original parcel. So it was that the second church building of St. Paul's parish was constructed in the 1730s.
As the city grew, it became increasingly clear that the church was inadequate to accommodate the growing population. In 1784, a new church building was completed, still resembling what we would today consider a small country parish. The church's graveyard surrounded the church and a brick wall encompassed the property.
In 1791, funds were secured to build a suitable rectory to house the parson and his family. This Historic Rectory now sits one block west of Old St. Paul's on the corner of Saratoga and Cathedral Streets and is the oldest continuously occupied residence in the City of Baltimore.
The parish cemetery was moved in 1800 to what was then the western edge of the city, now the corner of Redwood Street and Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, behind the University of Maryland Hospital. Among the many notable Marylanders buried there is Samuel Chase, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and General George Armistead, commander of the garrison at Fort McHenry during the War of 1812. (The cemetery is open to the public by appointment through the parish office.)
The fourth building to be called St. Paul's Parish was erected in 1817 and designed by the noted Baltimore architect Robert Cary Long. As the city continued to grow into an urban center, it became clear that a rustic church building with a courtyard seemed out of place. The new building was neoclassical in style and offered an imposing facade of Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian columns abutting Charles Street. This massive 1,600-seat structure served as parish well until it tragically burned nearly to the ground in 1854.
The vestry wasted little time securing the funds and design for a new church structure for what would become the fifth and current building of St. Paul's Parish. The new building was built on the foundation of the 1817 church and was designed by the famous English-born architect Robert Upjohn. Upjohn created an impressive Italian Romanesque building that was consecrated in 1856.
Old St. Paul's has been dubbed "The Mother Church of Baltimore" since it was the first church in the community.
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