Oak Hill Cemetery Chapel (Washington, D.C.)
38.912777777778 - 77.058888888889Koordinaten: 38 ° 54 '46 "N, 77 ° 3' 32 " W
The Oak Hill Cemetery Chapel, also known as Renwick James Renwick Chapel or Chapel, a historic building in Georgetown in Washington, DC in the United States. The building was designed in 1850 by James Renwick, Jr., and is the only example known has become a church building in neo-Gothic style by the architect in Washington, DC. Located on the highest crest of the Oak Hill Cemetery, near the intersection of 29th Street and R Street in Northwest. The Oak Hill Cemetery Chapel is one of two buildings on the Oak Hill Cemetery, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places; The other building is the Van Ness Mausoleum. The Chapel, the mausoleum and cemetery are also contributing properties of the Georgetown Historic District, which was declared a National Historic Landmark.
History
On 7 June 1848, the businessman and philanthropist William Wilson Corcoran ( 1798-1888 ) of Lewis Washington, great-grandnephew of the George Washington Parrott 's Woods, a 15 acre ( approximately 6 acres ) bought large wooded area above the Rock Creek Park. Corcoran organized a society for the establishment of a cemetery and on March 3, 1849, the Oak Hill Cemetery Company was formed by an act of Congress with a Charter.
The architect James Renwick, Jr. ( * 1818, † 1895) was selected to design a small chapel for the new cemetery. Renwick, among whose most famous work, the Grace Church, St. Patrick 's Cathedral in New York City and today's Renwick Gallery, began working at the chapel immediately after the completion of his plans for the Smithsonian Institution Building. The construction costs for the Oak Hill Cemetery Chapel amounted to 9400 U.S. dollars; This amount was paid by Corcoran.
On 16 March 1972, the National Park Service, the Oak Hill Cemetery Chapel added to the National Register of Historic Places added.
Architecture
The Oak Hill Cemetery Chapel is regarded as an excellent example of neo-Gothic architecture. It has a steeply pitched roof scale, brace works and lancet windows with stained glass. The chapel is a single storey, rectangular building has a height of seven meters and a length of 12.5 meters.
The building material formed gneiss from the valley of the Potomac River, sandstone and wood. A cornerstone with the inscription of the year 1850 is introduced into one of the strut works on the northwest corner of the chapel. The entrance to the chapel is a painted wooden door on the west side, which is protected by a schmiedesernem grid that can be completed. In the castle is the inscription Presented / Oak Hill Cemetery Co. / By / James L. Norris / March 19 to read 1895.. A rose window with wooden clutch is located above the door.
Influence
The nearby Grace Episcopal Church, a Neo-Gothic church dating back to 1867, is made entirely similar. Although the architect of this church is unknown, but there are reasons to believe that even those building was designed by Renwick. If this was not the case, as was the person who planned that church, strongly influenced by the work Renwick.