50 Orchard Ave., Providence, Rhode Island. County/parish: Providence.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 16, 1996. NRIS 96000571.
1 contributing building.St. Martin's Church is a historic Episcopal Church (United States) church at 50 Orchard Avenue in Providence, Rhode Island. It is located next door to Temple Beth-El, a Reform Synagogue. The church reported 598 members in 2015 and 318 members in 2023; no membership statistics were reported nationally in 2024 parochial reports. Plate and pledge income reported for the congregation in 2024 was $505,515. Average Sunday attendance (ASA) in 2024 was 101 persons.
The congregation was established in 1885 and the Gothic Revival church building was constructed in 1917 to a design by Clarke & Howe to replace an earlier wooden building. It is a granite structure with a squat square three-stage tower at its southeast corner. The parish house, attached to the main building's northeast corner, is a Tudor Revival structure added in 1925.
The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41375241