Church of the Epiphany is an historic

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church located at 201 S. Ashland Avenue in

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. The church was built in 1885 to replace its congregation's original church, which had grown too small for its increasing membership. Architect Francis Meredyth Whitehouse (1848-1938) of the Chicago firm Burling and Whitehouse designed the church in the

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style. The church has a

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exterior made up of irregularly coursed and roughly faced blocks; the stone was imported from

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. The building's entrances and windows are framed by heavy arches which are supported by short columns with floral decorations. A

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, completed in 1887, rises above the front corner of the church; the tower features patterned sections of smooth and rough stone and arched openings at the top. In 1962, the church formed an outreach ministry, St. Gregory Episcopal School. The K-8 school's focus was to enhance the educational opportunities for the young men in the surrounding resource challenged neighborhood using the traditional boy choir educational model as a form of liturgical and educational learning. The church was added to the

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on February 5, 1998.

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