The Episcopal Church of the Advent is located in
Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville ( , , ) is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 28th most-populous city in the United States. Louisville is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, on the Indiana border ...
. The congregation began as a Sunday school of Louisville's
Christ Church Cathedral in 1870 which met in a store at Broadway and Baxter Avenue and was called "Sunday School of the Advent". In 1872 it moved to Rubel Avenue near Broadway, and was formally organized as a congregation in 1874.
As the
Cherokee Triangle neighborhood of Louisville was being subdivided, the creation of East Broadway (soon renamed Cherokee Parkway) cut off a triangle of land that belong to
Cave Hill Cemetery
Cave Hill Cemetery is a Victorian era National Cemetery and arboretum located at Louisville, Kentucky. Its main entrance is on Baxter Avenue and there is a secondary one on Grinstead Drive. It is the largest cemetery by area and number of buri ...
, which rendered it useless for burials in the carefully planned facility, so the cemetery company sold the land to the Church of the Advent.
The congregation hired
Frederick C. Withers of New York to construct the church building, and the cornerstone was laid in 1887. The church was built in a late
Victorian style, with limestone walls, a slate roof, a series of gables and a tower. The first service was held on April 15, 1888, two Sundays after Easter that year.
When Cherokee Triangle was added to the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...
as a district, the Church of the Advent was described in the listing document as "the architectural and historical keystone of the district".
The Rev. Dr. Timothy Mitchell, a Louisville native, was installed as Rector in May 2008.
See also
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List of Registered Historic Places in Jefferson County, Kentucky
References
External links
Episcopal Church of the AdventOriginal Highlands website
19th-century buildings and structures in Louisville, Kentucky
19th-century Episcopal church buildings
Churches in Louisville, Kentucky
Gothic Revival church buildings in Kentucky
Episcopal church buildings in Kentucky
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