S. Stephen's Church is an historic

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church located at 114 George Street in the College Hill neighborhood of

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. It is in the

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campus and is an active parish in the

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. The church building, a large stone Gothic Revival structure, was designed by

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and built in 1860–62. In 1889 the congregation received a major bequest from Henry J. Steere, a prominent philanthropist. The church building was listed on the U.S.

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in 1973.

Rectors

Francis Vinton
1839–1840 # George Leeds, 1840–1841 # Henry Waterman, 1841–1845 # James H. Eames, 1845–1850 # Henry Waterman, 1850–1874 # Charles W. Ward, 1875–1877 # James W. Colwell, 1878–1884
George McClellan Fiske
1884–1919
Frederick Spies Penfold
1919–1926 # Frederic Fleming, 1927–1930 # Charles Townsend, Jr., 1930–1945 # Paul van K. Thomson, 1946–1949 # Warren R. Ward, 1949–1965 # Paul C. Kintzing, 1965–1976 # Livingston T. Merchant, 1977–1980 # Ronald P. Conner, 1981–1989 # David L. Stokes, Jr., 1991–1999 # John D. Alexander, 2000–2019 # Benjamin P. Straley (2021-2025) # Veronica Tierney (''Priest in Charge'' 2025-)

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150 Years on George Street
2019 parish history edited by John Alexander, foreword by Richard Mammana
NRHP registration form
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Rectors

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