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NAMES
Historic Name:St. Mark's Episcopal Church
Other Name:ST. MARK'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Contributing:
Reference Number:71487
PROPERTY LOCATION
Location (Address):S MAIN ST
County:Waupaca
City:Waupaca
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PROPERTY FEATURES
Year Built:1905
Additions:
Survey Date:1998
Historic Use:house of worship
Architectural Style:Early Gothic Revival
Structural System:
Wall Material:Rock-Faced Concrete Block
Architect: Wallace W. DeLong
Other Buildings On Site:
Demolished?:No
Demolished Date:
NATIONAL AND STATE REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES
National/State Register Listing Name:Not listed
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NOTES
Additional Information:Builder was Conrad Gmeiner. St. Mark's Church is a one-story late Gothic Revival style building constructed of rusticated concrete block. It has a gable roof with a slightly raised parapet on both ends. Along the side walls and on the corners of the central tower are a number of stepped buttresses. Openings are gothic-arched and accented with stone gothic arches. The main entrance is also accented with a stone gothic arch. The spire has been sided with vinyl siding and its gothic-arched openings have been enclosed. On top of the spire is a pent roof.

St. Mark's Church is architecturally interesting as a good example of the late Gothic Revival style as used in church design. It is also interesting for its rusticated concrete block construction. The Episcopal congregation was founded during the city's pioneer era in 1856 and some of the city's most important Yankee residents were members. The church was a center of Yankee ethnic life for much of the nineteenth century.
Bibliographic References:Freiburger, Rosemary and John Holzman. Our Heritage. Waupaca, WI: Waupaca County Post, 1976, p. 114. Waupaca Republican, 7/22/1904.
RECORD LOCATION
Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin

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