Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1780
Last evening the Boston Landmarks Commission approved the nomination of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church to the National Register of Historic Places based on the contribution of the church complex to the local architectural history of Boston.
The nomination was presented to the Commission by Timothy Orwig, a consultant, who has successfully nominated more than two dozen sites to the National Register of Historic Places. The St. Mark’s complex comprises 3 shingle buildings: the chapel, a parish house and a rectory. In today’s postcard, postmarked in 1908, we see the chapel building. The architectural design was by Edmund Quincy Sylvester, and the cornerstone was laid in 1904. St. Mark’s was begun as a mission of St. Mary’s Episcopal Church. Note the steeply pitched roof and the projecting entry porch with elements of half-timbering.
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