St. Peter's Church (West Bend, Wisconsin)

St. Peter's Church is in West Bend, Wisconsin. It is located at 1010 Newark Drive. On June 30, 1983, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places for its architectural significance.

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St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church (Manhattan)

Coordinates: 40°42′45″N 74°00′34″W / 40.712488°N 74.009501°W / 40.712488; -74.009501

St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, at 22 Barclay Street at the corner of Church Street in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City, was built in 1836-40 and was designed by John R. Haggerty and Thomas Thomas in the Greek Revival style, with six Ionic columns. The parish, part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, is the oldest Roman Catholic parish in New York State, and the building replaced an earlier one built in 1785-86. The original church was used for worship until 1834 when it was replaced by the present structure.

The church was designated a New York City landmark in 1965 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The present church has been declared a landmark by federal, state and city agencies.

History

Early history

A gift of 1,000 silver pieces from King Charles III of Spain topped off donations to start the construction of the church. Catholics constructing the original church initially tried to locate it on Broad Street, then in the heart of New York City. Due to anti-Catholic sentiments, however, New York City officials implored them to change the location to a site at Barclay and Church Streets, then outside the city limits. The builders relented and accepted the present location. The cornerstone of the original church was laid in 1785 and the first Mass celebrated in 1786.

St. Peter Church (Bridgeport, Connecticut)

St. Peter is a Roman Catholic church in Bridgeport, Connecticut, part of the Diocese of Bridgeport.

History

This Gothic Revival church dates from 1940 and was designed by Anthony J. DePace of New York. Mr. DePace was awarded Honorable Mention for Holy Year (Rome, Italy) for his design of this church.

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Coordinates: 41°10′35.28″N 73°12′49.26″W / 41.1764667°N 73.2136833°W / 41.1764667; -73.2136833

Spring Hill (Ivy, Virginia)

Spring Hill is a historic home located at Ivy, Albemarle County, Virginia. The main house dates to about 1785, and is a two-story, brick dwelling expanded in the 1870s and 1930s. The oldest building on the property is the brick field slave quarters, built about 1765, and once served as the main house. Also on the property are a brick dairy and kitchen. The house is representative of the evolution and integration of academic and vernacular architectural styles covering over two centuries of Albemarle County settlement.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

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Spring Hill (Providence Forge, Virginia)

Spring Hill is a historic home located near Providence Forge, New Kent County, Virginia. It was built about 1782, and is a 1 1/2-story, five-bay, gable-roofed, timber-frame Federal style dwelling. It has a center-hall plan. An addition was built in 1947. Also on the property is a contributing smokehouse. It is representative of a typical mid- to late-18th-century farmhouse in the Tidewater area of Virginia.

The house was built by Richard Croshaw Graves after the American Revolution. He commanded the New Kent and Charles County militias during the American Revolution (1776-82). After the war, he returned to his plantation, which he called "Indian Fields," and had a new house constructed for his growing family between 1782-84. He died there in 1798. The property passed to his son, Colonel Richard Graves. The Graves family retained possession of Indian Fields until 1863 when it was sold.

Local legend has it that Thomas Jefferson spent the eve of his wedding to Martha Wayles Skelton at Indian Fields with his friend Richard C. Graves . The young lawyer was traveling from Williamsburg, where he was attending court sessions, to Martha's family home, "The Forest," located in Charles City County. He began his journey on Christmas Eve, and arrived at "The Forest" shortly after Christmas Day, 1771. He would have spent Christmas enroute with the Graves family. Jefferson applied for a marriage license on December 31, 1771 and the couple was married on New Year's Day, 1772.

Spring Hill (Mobile, Alabama)

Spring Hill is an affluent neighborhood of Mobile, in Mobile County, Alabama. Located on a tall broad hill 6 miles (9.7 km) to the west of downtown Mobile, it has one of the highest elevations in the area. Originally a summer retreat community, it was eventually encompassed and annexed by the city of Mobile. It gained its name from a number of natural springs at the site.

History

Overlooking the surrounding landscape, Spring Hill began to be extensively settled in the first half of the 19th century. Among its first inhabitants were former French Bonapartists from the failed Vine and Olive Colony in Marengo County. Beginning during the 1820s, the city of Mobile and private developers bought what became Spring Hill. Between 1820 and 1827, the government of Mobile purchased three-fourths of section 14 from Congress. In 1828 William Robertson acquired all of section 13 (640 acres (260 ha)) and had a plat drawn up of 121 5-acre (2.0 ha) lots, sold at the rate of $100 per acre. Joshua Collins acquired 120 acres (49 ha) of another section and subdivided 80 acres (32 ha) of it into 10-acre (4.0 ha) lots. At the time, the majority of the land surrounding Mobile, outside of what is now downtown, was mosquito-infested swamp. With the city plagued by extreme humidity, heat, and yellow fever epidemics during the warm months, people began to realize that the western hills outside of the city tended to remain relatively free of fever and disease. Many wealthy Mobilians soon built summer residences on lots in Spring Hill. The earliest houses of the 1830s and 1840s tended to be cottages, with many in the Gulf Coast cottage style. Large country houses in the Greek Revival style came to dominate by the 1850s and later.

St Peter's Church, Spring Hill

St Peter’s Church, Spring Hill is a Grade B listed former Church of England parish church in Birmingham.

History

The first church dedicated to St Peter in Birmingham was built in Dale End and consecrated in 1827. This was closed in 1899 for demolition and the endowments transferred to a new church. The new church was built to designs by the architect Frank Barlow Osborn and was consecrated on Saturday 19 July 1902 by the Bishop of Worcester. A parish was assigned in 1902 from the parishes of All Saints' Church, Hockley and St Mark's Church, Ladywood.

When the church was closed in 2001 by the Church of England the parish merged with St John's Church, Ladywood and the building was sold to become the New Testament Church of God the Rock.

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