Quote Originally Posted by EastsideAl View Post
There is also the odd case of St. John's Episcopal Church on Woodward. A small chapel was completed and opened in 1859, but the larger church wasn't completed and opened until Dec. 1861, 8 months after the attack on Ft. Sumpter. The original chapel was disassembled and moved further back when the church was expanded in the 1890s, and the whole church was moved back when Woodward was widened in 1936.

Fort Street Presbyterian is another odd case. The first church was completed in 1855, but it was almost totally destroyed by fire in 1876. In 1877 the church was rebuilt to the original plans. It was heavily damaged by fire again in 1914, and again rebuilt according to the original plans.

Tommy Burelle, who runs Tommy's Bar directly behind Fort St. Presbyterian, claims his building was built in the 1840s, but I have never seen any documentation of that.

Architect Charles H. Marsh was contracted for the design work after the 1876 fire at Fort Street Presbyterian. He did not follow the original design but did a sympathetic rehab, although most of the alterations were made to the interior. In 1914 William B. Stratton was contracted design/superintend the repairs from that fire. Again Stratton made alterations to the interior of the building. The steeple itself been altered several times, I have found at least 4 different occasions the steeple has been damaged by the weather including the same 88MPH wind storm that struck St. Albertus on Good Friday 1913. Last there is the 1907 church house that was designed by John Scott.