{"nrhp_refnum":"80001410","name":"Christ Episcopal Church","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"611 E. Jackson St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Springfield","county":"Sangamon County","state":"IL","lat":39.79731643300005,"lon":-89.64763029599999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-09-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Richardson Romanesque Episcopal church at 611 East Jackson Street in Springfield, Illinois, built in 1888 of Grafton Quarry stone, with a parish house added in 1914 and a Sunday School addition in 1950.","why_significant":"The church shows the influence of H. H. Richardson on American architecture, adapted to a small English-parish-church form. It is described as the only English parish church design in the Springfield area and the earliest scholarly adaptation of Richardson Romanesque to a modest religious building outside the Chicago area. It is also described as exceptionally intact. It was designed by the local firm Bullard and Bullard.","narrative":"Christ Episcopal Church, at 611 East Jackson Street in Springfield, is a small stone church completed in 1888 in the Richardson Romanesque style. Its rusticated Grafton Quarry stone walls, arched entrances, slate roof and banks of stained glass windows give it the scale of an English parish church rather than a soaring Gothic cathedral. Local architects Bullard and Bullard designed it, and Samuel Bullard's Richardsonian approach came from his studies under Nathan Ricker at the University of Illinois. The nomination describes it as the only English parish church design in the Springfield area and the earliest scholarly adaptation of this style to a modest religious building outside the Chicago region. Memorial gifts paid for much of the work, including a 1914 parish house and a garden. The congregation paid for a 1950 Sunday School addition. The interior keeps its oak woodwork, pews, altar and memorials. The church remains in use and still follows the low-style service required by its early donors.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899, 1900- (specific dates 1888, 1914, 1950)","architect_builder":"Bullard and Bullard (Samuel Bullard principal architect); 1950 addition by architect Harry J. Reiger, builder E. R. Jones and Co.","architectural_style":"Richardson Romanesque revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied; used as a church. Condition marked good, with some alterations, on its original site.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.953157-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/40/8940/28894040/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/80001410.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001410/17da45a90a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001410/17da45a90a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Teemu08","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christ_Episcopal_Church_Springfield_IL.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Teemu08</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christ_Episcopal_Church_Springfield_IL.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28894040","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_Episcopal_Church_(Springfield,_Illinois)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5108883"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/sangamon-county/christ-episcopal-church-80001410/"}