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Church of St. John the Evangelist is an historic Episcopal church located in the village of Tannersville, part of the town of Hunter in Greene County, New York. It was built in 1885 and is a one-story, one-by-six bay structure. It is built of light frame construction atop partial fieldstone walls on a fieldstone foundation. It features a steeply pitched gable roof with a large square belfry on the ridge. It was designed by noted architect William Halsey Wood (1855–1897).〔 ''See also:'' 〕〔In his book ''The Almighty Wall: The architecture of Henry Vaughan'' historian William Morgan attributes this design to emigrant British architect and fellow high churchman Henry Vaughan (18-19, 201 ), though Morgan offers no evidence for that attribution.〕 It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.〔 ==Construction== Prior to the building of St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church, members of the Society of St. John the Evangelist (also known as the Cowley fathers) held Episcopal services in the Hunter area in local hotels, such as Blythewood, the Laurel House, and the Catskill Mountain House, as well as in the Union Meeting House and a one-room school house on Platt Clove Road.〔Murray, Isabelle B., ''St. John's Episcopal Church'', pamphlet to commemorate the centenary of St. John the Evangelist, July 1985, privately printed〕 The architect of the church was William Halsey Wood. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Hemsley, the parents of Wood's finance Florence Hemsley and owners of Blythewood, donated the land for the construction of the new church, and also built the road to it, now known as Philadelphia Hill Road. The church opened on the tenth Sunday after Trinity, in early August, 1885, named St. John the Evangelist in honor of the Cowley fathers. Wood and Hemsley wed in the Church on the 19th of November 1889. Wood chose a simple Gothic design for the church, with a "serene and pleasing" vaulted interior and clerestory of wood. While (St. Clements Church, Philadelphia ), gifted a substantial oak altar to St. John's, the new church was not quite finished on its opening Sunday. An article in ''The Church Standard'', dated 19 August 1885 noted, "At that time the windows had yet to be installed, the lathing and plastering were incomplete." Nor did the church yet have its distinctive lotus blossom ceiling paintings.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Church of St. John the Evangelist (Hunter, New York)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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