Saint John's Episcopal Church is a historic

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church located at Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, Indiana. It was built in 1837 by an Episcopal congregation, organized through missionary bishop Jackson Kemper, and is a one-story, gable fronted frame building in the Greek Revival style. The original section measures 30 feet by 50 feet; a 30-foot rear addition was built in 1960. Atop the roof is a belfry added about 1950. It is the oldest remaining church building in Crawfordsville and Indiana's first Episcopal Church building. ''Note:'' This includes and Accompanying photographs. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. Theologian

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, a longtime Yale Divinity School faculty member and a significant figure in

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, briefly served as rector in the early 1950s. Hans Wilhelm Frei

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Episcopal church buildings in Indiana Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana Churches completed in 1837 Greek Revival church buildings in Indiana Buildings and structures in Montgomery County, Indiana National Register of Historic Places in Montgomery County, Indiana Crawfordsville, Indiana {{MontgomeryCountyIN-NRHP-stub