Christ Church, officially The Parish of Christ Church, Hyde Park is a historic church building built in 1893 at 1220 River Road in

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, a neighborhood of

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. It is a parish of the

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. Christ Church was the second church building designed by

Ralph Adams Cram Ralph Adams Cram (December 16, 1863 – September 22, 1942) was a prolific and influential American architect of collegiate and ecclesiastical buildings, often in the Gothic Revival style. Cram & Ferguson and Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson are partner ...

(after the nearby

All Saints' Church, Ashmont The Parish of All Saints, Ashmont, is a church of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts located at 209 Ashmont Street in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Built 1892-1929 for a congregation founded in 1867, it was the first ...

), who went on to design many church buildings, notably the Cathedral of St. John the Divine,

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. The church was built in 1893 and added to the National Historic Register in 1986.

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