Trinity Episcopal Church is a historic

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church located in

Oshkosh, Wisconsin Oshkosh () is a city in Winnebago County, Wisconsin, United States, and its county seat. It is located on the western shore of Lake Winnebago and had a population of 66,816 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the List o ...

. The only Episcopal church in Oshkosh, Trinity is in the Diocese of Fond du Lac. The congregation first met in 1850, organizing as Trinity Episcopal Church in 1854."Oshkosh: Trinity Church"
''History of the Diocese of Fond du Lac and Its Several Congregations'', A. Parker Curtiss, 1925. Retrieved on 26 April 2008. The current church building, which was constructed in 1887, is an example of

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architecture. It was added to the

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in 1974.Wisconsin: Winnebago County
National Register of Historic Places. Retrieved on 26 April 2008.

History

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priest Franklin R. Haff held the first Episcopal service in Oshkosh in 1850. The parish was briefly organized as St. Peter's parish, then reorganized as Trinity Episcopal Church in 1854, with David W. Tolford serving as first rector. The first church building was a wooden structure built and

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in 1857, and located at Algoma Boulevard and Division street. In 1887, the original building was razed, and the current stone structure, a Richardsonian Romanesque design by

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William Waters, was built on the same site.

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Official site The Diocese of Fond du LacThe Episcopal ChurchThe Anglican Communion
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