St. Peter's Episcopal Church, now a museum, is a former
church
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Religion
* Church (building), a place/building for Christian religious activities and praying
* Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination
* Church service, a formalized period of Christian comm ...
at 411 L Street in Neligh, Nebraska. It was built in 1887 and was added to the National Register in 1980.
History
An
Episcopalian
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congregation was organized in Neligh in 1881. Land was purchased for a church in 1887 on the corner of what was then Cottonwood and Main Streets. The building was completed in late 1887 and consecrated in March 1888. The church was added to the
National Register of Historic Places
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in December 1980. .
The building is now the Pioneer Church, part of the Antelope County Museum complex.
Architecture
The church is a one-story frame structure with vertical
tongue and groove
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siding below the window sills and horizontal
clapboard
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''Clapboard'', in modern Am ...
siding above. The roof sections are gabled, all windows have pointed arches.
The church design was influenced by the
Church of St. James the Less Church of St James the Less may refer to:
United Kingdom
* St James the Less' Church, Ashted, Birmingham
* St James the Less and St Helen Church, Colchester, Essex
* Church of St James the Less, Hadleigh, Essex
* Church of St James the Less, Hambri ...
in Philadelphia (1846). The St. James church was the first in the U.S. to be built from designs and under the direct supervision of London, England's
Cambridge Camden Society
The Cambridge Camden Society, known from 1845 (when it moved to London) as the Ecclesiological Society,