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St. Alphonsus R.C. Church

Architectural Survey File

This is the architectural survey file for this MIHP record. The survey file is organized reverse-

chronological (that is, with the latest material on top). It contains all MIHP inventory forms, National

Register nomination forms, determinations of eligibility (DOE) forms, and accompanying documentation

such as photographs and maps.

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the MHT Library in Crownsville. The vertical files may include newspaper clippings, field notes, draft

versions of forms and architectural reports, photographs, maps, and drawings. Researchers who need a

thorough understanding of this property should plan to visit the MHT Library as part of their research

project; look at the MHT web site (mht.maryland.gov) for details about how to make an appointment.

All material is property of the Maryland Historical Trust.

Last Updated: 03-10-2011

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MARYLAND HISTORICAL TRUST WORKSHEET

NOMINATION FORM for the

NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES, NATIONAL PARKS SERVICE

~-120 West Saratoga Street COMMON :

Saint Alphonus Church ANO/ OR HISTORIC:

S AI NT ALPHONS US SARATOGA

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114-1 20 Wes t Sarato a Street CITY OR T OWN !

Baltimore

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0 Sit• 0 Structure cg Private

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WNER S NAME:

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21202

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OESCRl8E TH2 PRESENT• •O ORIGIH A. 1... ( U ""°""" PHVSICA.I... A.PPEA."A.HC £

DESIGNED ANQ BUI LT BY RoeERT CARY LONG , JR ., NAT I VE BA LTIMORE ARCH IT EC T ,

THE PRESENT CHURCH BUIL DING DATES FROM 1842 , ANOTHER CHURCH HAV I NG OCCUP I ED

THE S ITE PREVIOUSLY. GOTH I C REV IVAL I N STYLE , THE CHURCH I S THE FIRST

I MPORT ANT STRU CTU RE TO BE BU IL T IN TH I S MANNER IN B ALT IMORE , WHER E REVIVAL

STYLES HAVE HAO SUCH A LONG HI STORY. THE THI N , LI GHT LY BUTTRESSED ANO

BATTLEMENTED WA LL S ARE SOMEWHAT AUSTERE , LEAD ING ONE HISTORIAN TO CONSIDER THE EFFECT !(ro1 EI I XHv" Go TH I c .

THE BRICK CONSTRUC T.ION I S SE T OFF BY S TON E T RA CERY CHARAC TERIS TIC ALLY

CARR I ED OUT IN THE PO I NTED-ARCH WINDOWS CONSPICUOUS ON THE WA LL S OF THE

RECTANGULAR BUILD I NG ANO EXT END IN G ALSO INT O TWO STAGES OF TH E TIERED TOWER o

THIS TOWER , WHICH LONG DESC~IBEO AS ASCEND I NG IN STAGES 11 LIKE THE JOINT S OF

A TELESCOPE" , IS 200 FEET T ALL , FIFTY FEET TALLER THAN THE LENG TH OF THE

BU IL DIN G. IT R ISES F ROM T HE VEST I BULE CENTERING THE SOUTH ENO OF THE BU ILD­

I NG , IN JUXTAPOSITION TO A ROUNDED APSE AT THE NORTH ENO .

I RON WAS USED IN THE SPIRE ANO ALSO RE INFO RC ES INTERIOR COLUMNS . P L ASTER

ANO WOOD REP LACE THE r XPECTEO S TONE IN THE BU ILOING 1 S IN TER I OR . THE ORNATE AMBIEN CE I S HIGH LI GHTED BY THE OR I GINA L STA I NED GLASS OF ~UN ICH OR I G IN ,

THE WOODEN COLUMNS ANO ELABORA TE RIBBING ARE PA I NT ED TO RESEMBLE MARBLE .

THE E XTERIOR , ORIGINA LLY PAINTED AS THE DES IGN ER HAO I ND I CATED , WAS SAND­

BL ASTED I N 1968 ANO NOW RE TU RNED TO ITS NATU RA L BR ICK , T HE RESU LT IS SOME­

WHAT MORE COMMONP LACE THAN T HE ORIG I NA L, DESCR I BED I N AN ~RLIER DAY AS FOLLOWS!

11 • • •• THE DESIGN OF THE WHOL E BU IL D I NG I S FURTHER EN HANCED BY

THE PA LE WARM GREY COLOR OF THE PA I NTED WALLS AGA I NST WHl~H

ALL THE DEC ORA TI VE ORNAMENT I S P I CKED OUT IN CORA L P I NK 11 •

IN AOOITION TO QUEST I ON I NG THE ESTHET I C ASPEC TS OF T HE RECENT MOVE , AN

OBSERVER ALSO NOTES THAT SOME OF THE BR I CKS , NO LONGER POR TECT I VELY COA TED , ARE S HOW ING S I GNS OF WEAR ANO THE C I TY 1 S ABRAS IVE ATMOSPHERE .

ADJ ACENT TO THE CHUR CH ARE T HE FOUR-STO RY ' ECTORY ANO THREE- STOR Y OFF I CE

BU IL DI NG , BO TH OF BRICK ANO BOTH PRESENTING MANY - WINDOWED FACADES TO THE

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S r . ALP HONSUS CHURCH WAS THE FIRST I MPORTANT COMMISSION RECE I VED BY

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ROB ERT CARY Lor-rn , J R. AN D I T UNDOUBTED L Y AFFECTED FAVO RAB LY THE NAT I ONA L I' REPUT AT ION THE B ALTIMORE ARCHITECT WAS SOON TO AC QUIRE .

THE CHURCH WAS BU I L T TO MEET THE NEEDS OF A RAP I DLY INC REASING GERMAN

CATHO LI C CONGREG AT I ON 1 WHICH IN 1840 HAO OUTGROWN THE OR I G I NAL CHURCH ON

THE SA ME S I TE 1 Sr . J OH N THE E VANG EL I S T . THE CONGREGAT I ON WAS PUT I N

CHARGE OF THE REOEMPTORISTS AT THIS TIME ANO AS A RESULT OF THA T 0RDER 1 S

PREST I GE I N THE HOME MISSION FIELD, MUCH OF THE BU IL D IN G FUND WA S CON­TRIBUT ED BY MISSIONARY A I D SOC I ET I ES IN Aus•RI A , BAVA R IA AND F RANCE.

TOD AY THE CHURCH HOLDS MASS AT LEAST ON S UNDAY ANO FRE~UENTLY DUR I NG THE

WEEK . THE BUILD IN G IS CAREFULL Y MAINTAINED AND THERE I S LITTLE S I GN OF

PHYSICA L DETERIORATION . TH E MOST FLAGRANT ABUSE OF THE DES I GN MAY BE

THE RELATIVE LY REC EN T I NSTALLAT I ON OF AIR- CONDIT I ONI NG EQUIPMENT WH I CH

OBSCURES THE VI EW FROM THE GALLERY . HOWEVER 1 AS TH E SEX TO N TELLS VIS I TORS 1 THE GALLERY I S BARRED 11 FOR SECURITY REASONS 11 •

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DoRsE v , JOHN: A Gll l OE Tr• EALT!f l0r~[ !.\RCll lT CTURE ; CAMB RI OGE , Mo ., T10EwATER FvBLISH ERS . 1973.

HowLANo , R1cHARD HvBB ARo : TH[ ARCH I TECTU~[ CF BALTI MORE ; JOHNS HOPKI NS PRESS . 1953 .

·ScHARF , JoHN THOMAS: HI STC~Y OF BAL T !MORE C I TY AND CCU~ITY ; PH 1 LAD EL­PH 1 A, L. H. EvER Ts . 1881 .

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APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY :

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152' 3" x 155 •

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Commiss ion for Hi st . and Arch . Preservation STREET ANO N U MBER:

Room 900 26 South Calvert Street

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jl. NAME .,

COMMON: ~(8-'i.:5 8•) St . Alphonsus ' Church, Re ctorv , Convent and Halle

AND( OR H I S TORIC:

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~!_~T~=? N U M BER: (No . 114 Rectory) ( No . 112 116 West Saratoaa Street (Church] Conve ntl, ( NQ . 125- 121 ~

CITY OR TOWN ; C ON GRESSIONAL DISTRICT .

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St . Alphonsus ' Church is located on t he northeast corne r of the inte r section of Park and Sara toga Stree ts in Ba l t i more .

St . Alphonsus ' Church is a Gothic-Reviva l building that combine s German and English Pe rpendicular Gothic details . St . Alphons us ' is basically a large recta ngular space with a i s les and nave of the same he ight . The uniform he i ght of the ceiling has a f e elihg similar to that of the box-like collegiate chapels in England , e . g . Kings College Chapel , Cambridge . At the same time the open interior space re­semb l es a "hall-church " familiar to the Redemptorists, who commissioned the Church in the Gothic architecture of thei r native Ge r many. The star-shaped vaults , although made of plaster , and the Pe rpendicular-style windows and tracery came from English source s . The effect produced by the duration is reminiscent of the interiors in the British House of Parliament by Charles Barry and Augustus Puzin . The walls and ceilings are stenciled with a strong geld accent . The clust2~cd iron colWJU1S are marbleized .

German Catholic exarr.ples provided the precedent for the apse containing the altar flanked on each side by a n apsidal space containing a side altar. On the exterior , the central tower located over the center door on the south facade has an appearance similar to towers found in many German towns.

The floor plan--notably the vestibule which runs the entire length of the southern end of the church -- is a characteristic of the architect , Robert Cary Long, Jr. The crenelation , the stripped buttresses, the seven bay, east and west, facades, and the box-like shape -- these elements of St . Alphonsus ' appear in Long ' s Franklin Street Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, a National Register of Historic Places property. Unlike the Franklin Street church, Long intended St . Alphonsus ' Church to be painted a warm buff color. In 1968, in a burst of "Colonial" enthusiasm, the church had the paint blasted off. Long did not object to bare brick walls , rather he felt that the quality of brick available to him at the time was not adequate to re­main bare .

In the nineteenth century the Redemptorists showed an appreciation for the architecture of Long ' s church and used similar designs for other church buildings on the same block . The three satellite buildings -- the Rectory, the Convent and the Halle--blend architecturally with St. Alphonsus' Church making a unified urban composition.

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it is one of the f i r st Gothic buildings b a sed on a careful study of medieva l mode ls which is mos t frequently character­ized in the Anglo-American ecclesiological move ment . Phoebe B . Stanton , in The Gothic Re viva l and Ameri can Chu r ch Architecture An Episode in Ta ste , (Baltimore : 196 8, 2 25-23 8) h as given the best asse ssment of the architectura l signi f icanc~ .

Mrs . Stanton ' s book p l aces the Bal t i more architect, Robert Ca ry Lo ng , Jr. , i n t he same rank wi th Frank Wills , John Notrnan a nd John W. Priest . St. Alphonsus ' wa s Long ' s f irst maj o r commission . I n i t ' s design especially the interio r, h e benefited f rom his exposure to English Gothic Reviva l architec ts , notably A. W. Pugin . Long had trave l led in Europe a nd had s t udie d wi th Mar tin Euc l id Thomp s on in New York a nd with his fat her in Ba l timo re . Though his brief care e r was termi nated by h is e arly d e ath i n 1 849 , Long made a n i mpor t1 ant c on tribu tion to Ameri can Arc hitectural Theory , notab ly in a series of article s for The Literary Wo r l d (1848-1 849) and for The Uni t ed States Cat hol ic Maga zine (18~~) . .

St . Alphonsus ' Chu r ch, t he i nstitution , has played an importa nt role in t he h is tory of Baltimore . The Re d emptionist Fat h e rs , a Germa n ord e r of Roman Catholic pri e sts , r a ised t he money to hire Long a nd erect t he church . The Re demptionists had come to Baltimore to minister to the rising number of German immigrants. They erected a school at the same time as the· ·t!hurch and provided education before the public school system h a d r e ache d al l chi ldren . The school burned and was replace d by St . Alphonsus ' Halle (1873) which is still in use . In 1858 the Redemptionists began the St . Alphonsus ' Orphan Asylum for Ge rman orphans . Two years later the Al phonsus H~ll Buildi ng Association, which loaned mortgage money, be came an incor porated l e nding institution in Baltimore· City . I

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Baltimore City Land Records . Hal l of Records , Annapolis , Maryland .

Laws of Maryland 1841 . Chapter 26 .

. 1860 . Chapter 151.

Scharf , J . Thomas . History of Baltimore City and County From the Earliest Period to the Present Day : . . ..

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NW 39 0 17' 36 5 76° 37 07 . 0 . 0 . . NE 39 ° 1 7' 36. 5 ' 76 ° 37 '03.5'" SE 39 ° 17' 33 . 76° 37. 03 . SW 3q Q 1 7' 3 2 ") I 76 <>_ 37. 06 . - I.

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STATE: CODE COU NT Y: CODE

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Nancy Miller , Historian; Michael Bourne and William Morqan ORGAN IZ. ATION

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Maryland Historical Trust Dec. 12 , 1972 S TRE ET ANO NUMBER:

2525 Riva Road CITY OR TOWN: STATE COD E

Annapolis Maryland 24 112. STATE LIAISON OFFICER .CERTIFICAl ION NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICAT ION

As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na ·

tional Hi storic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public L a w r here by certify that this prope rty is included in the

89-665), r hereby nom inate this property for inclusion Nationa J Register

in the Nationa l Register and cer tify that it has been

Pvaluated accordin'-7; to the c·iteria and procedures set

forth by the Nat ional Park Service. The recomme nded

level of significance of this nomination is: Director, Office of Archeoloay and Historic Preservation

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St . Alphonsus ' Church

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#6 - Representation in Existing Surveys (continued )

Maryland Register of Historic Sites and Landmarks 1972 State

Maryland Historical Trust 252 5 Riva Road Annapol i s Maryl and 24

#7 - Description - Continued

St . Alphonsus' Halle , at 125- 12 7 Saratoga Street , is a ~four-and-a-half-story brick structure with a central

~-4?> SI pavilion topped b y a gable . A lancet shaped brick arch frames the central door . The second and third-story windows on the pavilion are lancet shaped . The dormers of the Halle are English Gothic.

The Convent a t 112 W. Saratoga Stree t i s three stories high , set on a high basement. The structure has both common and Flemish bond on its principal (south) facade . There is a molded b r ick cornice. The windows have flat or jack arches and marble sills .

The Rectory at 114 W. Saratoga Street, between the Convent on the east and the Church on the west is a symmetrical, five-bay , four-story structure . Buil t of brick, there is a belt course between the third and f ourth stories .

#8 - Significance - Continue d

However , the independent congregation that owns the church 1s an active inner-city institution ministering to the needy, irrespective of any German extraction . They maintain the Halle , a rectory and a convent .

St. Alphonsus' Church and its satellite buildings on Saratoga Street, the Halle (No . 125- 127) , the rectory (No . 11 ) and the Convent (No. 112) define the urban street scape with an important unified architectural statement.

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#9 - Major Bibliographical Refe rences (continued)

Stanton , Phoebe B . Notes on St . Alphon sus ' Church and on Robert Cary Long , Jr . The Johns Hopkins Univers ity , Baltimore, Maryland.

The Gothic Revival and American Church Architecture An Episode i n Taste 1840-1856 . Baltimore : The Johns -Hopkins Press , 1968 .

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