The records of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania includes a historical sketch, parish registers, minutes of the Women's Guild, register of church services, deed to Burgwin pew, correspondence, newsclippings, and photographs.
Series I includes a historical sketch of the church, 1850-1918.
Series II includes Parish registers, 1852-1958. These registers contain baptisms, communicants, confirmations, marriages, burials, parishoners, families, church offerings, and rectors.
Series III contains the minutes of the Women's Guild of St. Peter's, November, 1916 - October, 1928.
Series IV contains a register of church services and the deed to pew number 50.
Series V includes miscellaneous correspondence concerning the relocation of the church and the designation of the church as a national historic landmark.
Series VI includes newsclippings about the relocation of the church building, change of rectors, church social and educational activities, 85th anniversary, national landmark status, and architectural style.
Series VII includes photographs of the church facade, Grant and Diamond streets before relocation; the church as it stands on Fifth and Craft Avenues; and photos of church groups and the church basketball team.
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These records were microfilmed, with permission, by the Archives of Industrial Society, September 1982.
Original records in the possession of the Archives of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh.
St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Pittsburgh, Pa. Records, 1852-1958, AIS.1982.15, Archives & Special Collections, University of Pittsburgh Library System
St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Pittsburgh, Pa. Records, 1852-1958, AIS.1982.15, Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh
St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Pittsburgh (Oakland) Pa. Records, 1852-1958, AIS Micro 82:15
This collection was processed by Katie Kirwan in November 1982.
Revision and rearrangement for the encoded version of the finding aid provided by Dan Horvath in August 2003. Information about the collection title and the controlled access terms was extracted from the MARC record in the University of Pittsburgh catalog Voyager ID number: 1433578
Revisions to the Notes were made by Connor Russell in October 2024.
Permission for publication is given on behalf of the University of Pittsburgh as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
St. Peter's Episcopal Church, consecrated in 1851, was built as a Chapel of Ease for Trinity Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Pittsburgh. Located at the corner of Diamond Alley and Grant Street in Downtown Pittsburgh, the church was designed by John Notman in the Gothic Revival style. The total costs for the church included $16,800 for the land and $31,300 for construction, with an additional $2,000 for stained glass and $1,500 for the organ.
The Rev. Dr. Edwin Martin Van Deusen became the first Associate Rector of both Trinity and St. Peter's on November 3, 1852. During his time, Van Deusen contributed to the church's transition from an extension of Trinity to an independent parish. On January 31, 1854, a resolution was passed for the formal incorporation of St. Peter's as a separate church, with Van Deusen representing the congregation. The church officially became independent on February 8, 1854.
St. Peter's remained at its original downtown location until 1900, when Henry Clay Frick purchased the property for $260,000 and returned the building to the congregation. In 1901, the church was deconstructed and relocated to the Oakland neighborhood at the corner of Forbes and Craft avenues, where it was reconstructed. It remained there until its deconsecration and demolition in 1989.
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