{"nrhp_refnum":"74001737","name":"Emmanuel Episcopal Church","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"North and Allegheny Aves.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pittsburgh","county":"Allegheny County","state":"PA","lat":40.45295688400003,"lon":-80.01907310530666,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-05-03","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"2000-02-16","areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Emmanuel Episcopal Church is a one-story brick church at North Avenue and Allegheny Avenue in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, in continuous use since 1886.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the church is an extraordinary example of brick design attributed to Henry Hobson Richardson, whom it describes as the first professional American architect. Its brickwork patterns, tumbled gable and Richardsonian features are presented as the highest level of brick work of its period, and it is described as highly significant to American architectural history.","narrative":"Built in 1885-86 in Pittsburgh's North Side, Emmanuel Episcopal Church is a brick, one-story rectangular building with an apsidal chancel end and a steep gable. Its form is often called the bake oven type and is linked to certain English churches of the period. The facade is notable for its brickwork: corner piers are subtly battered, archivolts are concentric rings of soldier-course brick with king and queen closers, and the gable rake is finished with a tumbling course, a device used by Dutch and East Anglian builders. Rock-faced stone sills and impost blocks contrast with the brick. The entrance is through a triple-arched loggia, and the interior has a trussed roof of laminated beams and later chancel fittings. The church is regarded as one of the most accomplished brick designs of the nineteenth century and as an important example of Richardson's work in Pittsburgh.","period_of_significance":"1885-86","architect_builder":"Henry Hobson Richardson (architect, attributed by H.R. Hitchcock to Richardson himself rather than his office)","architectural_style":"Richardsonian Romanesque","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"In continuous use since 1886 and in very good condition, per the description.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:30.558008-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/74001737.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001737/cab3310c20-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001737/cab3310c20-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emmanuel_Episcopal_Church_in_Pittsburgh,_rear_and_western_side.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emmanuel_Episcopal_Church_in_Pittsburgh,_rear_and_western_side.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997680","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Episcopal_Church_(Pittsburgh)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5373216"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/allegheny-county/emmanuel-episcopal-church-74001737/"}