Grace Episcopal Church is an historic

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church building located at 405 2nd Avenue, North East, in Jamestown, Stutsman County, North Dakota. Designed in the

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style of architecture by British-born Fargo architect George Hancock, it was built 1884 of local

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exterior walls and a wooden roof. Early parish records contain several assertions that George Hancock modeled the church after

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which had been opened in 1881, but if he did, it was only in a very general, not specific way. Hancock's later work

St. Stephen's Episcopal Church (Casselton, North Dakota) The former St. Stephen's Episcopal Church also known as St. Stephen's Church, is an historic stone Gothic Revival-style Episcopal church building located on the southeast corner of 3rd Avenue and 5th Street in Casselton, North Dakota, United ...

is much more closely related to Christ Church, Medway. On December 3, 1992, Grace Episcopal Church was added to the

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Current status

Grace Episcopal Church is still an active parish in the

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.Episcopal Diocese of North Dakota listing for Grace Church, Jamestown
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References

External links

Grace Episcopal Church website
Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in North Dakota Episcopal church buildings in North Dakota Stone churches in North Dakota Gothic Revival church buildings in North Dakota Churches completed in 1884 Buildings and structures in Jamestown, North Dakota 19th-century Episcopal church buildings National Register of Historic Places in Stutsman County, North Dakota 1884 establishments in Dakota Territory {{NorthDakota-church-stub