No. 83  July 2010
 
     The authoritative source on
    early churches of New Jersey


       ISSN 1543-3250

Mercer cover

Monmouth book cover


Sussex book cover

Warren book cover

Rutgers bookcover


Somerset bookcover


forthcoming



Burlington cover


About this site

We've created a database and photographic inventory on more than half the 18th & 19th century churches in the state and add to it each month. We welcome and solicit all contributions and suggestions from our visitors.




Index


To make past articles more accessible we've prepared this index to help visitors locate articles that might be of particular interest. As an alternative, the search capability on the home page is also remarkably effective in finding specific churches, denominations, features or proper names.


architects & architectural styles
builders & architects
builder's guides & plan books
Oscar Teale, architect
a building of endearing simplicity: meetinghouse varieties
shaped by local and peculiar circumstances
Catholic Gothic
variations of the Gothic
a traditional, but strictly regional design
what should a church look like?
Wren-Gibbs style
board-and-batten churches
Akron Plan churches
Greek Revival: pagan temples for Christian worship
Greek Revival, revisited
beginnings of Gothic Revival
trying to make sense of Methodist architecture
the influence of St James the Less
an orgy of eclectic showiness
amphitheatres & Akron plans
J. Cleveland Cady, Presbyterian architect
Jeremiah O'Rourke, Catholic architect
William Halsey Wood — destined for prominence
the influence of Philadelphia's Old St. George's Methodist

the search for Charles Graham
Philadelphia-based architects
Georgian style
Patrick Keely, Catholic architect

Greek Revival (again)


architectural details
churches from the other side
"not so wide as a churchdoor"
board-and-batten churches
no devil in these details
shaped by local and peculiar circumstances
mine is larger than yours
wooden Friends:frame Quaker meeting houses
the secco decorations at Walpack Methodist
the significance of the port cochere


cities, counties & regions
Elizabeth's Presbyterians
Bergen's Reformed churches
lost in Morris County
two Plainfield churches
Route 322 expedition
"far removed from the gaze of the cultured and the pious"
Mount Holly's Sacred Heart churches
Mercer County churchscape

North Carolina churches


culture, history, economics & politics
the miner's churches
white walls, black congregations
some talk of building a church
the Anti-Masonic movement
free land, closer to home
desacralizing the landscape
dissent over abolition
chronology of significant events affecting religion & building

the oldest churches in the state, part 1
the oldest churches in the state, part 2


denominations
Mount Holly's Sacred Heart churches
the remaining 19th century synagogues of New Jersey
Campbellite churches of New Jersey
white walls, black congregations
the oldest Mormon church in the country?
when Friends part—the Hicksite schism
Catholic Gothic
trying to make sense of Methodist architecture
union congregations
Bergen's Reformed churches
Elizabeth's Presbyterian churches
wooden Friends:frame Quaker meetinghouses
in search of a few old Friends


individual churches
Elizabeth's Presbyterian churches
two Plainfield churches
the oldest Mormon church in the country?
the influence of St James the Less
Burlington's (new) St. Mary's Church
Mount Holly's Sacred Heart churches
the oldest church in the state
First Presbyterian Church of Ewing
amphitheatres & Akron plans: Hackettstown's Trinity ME
the secco decorations at Walpack Methodist
St. Mary's revisited

St. Peter the Apostle


photography
bare ruined choirs
churches from the other side
a photographic expedition along Route 322
a church is just an excuse to make a picture
observations on digital photography
historic plantations and villages
Anasazi ruins
on my own time

religious history
when Friends part—the Hicksite schism
myths and misconceptions
Campbellite churches of New Jersey
the White Pilgrim

miscellaneous topics
deceptive chronologies
a report to our readers
NJ Historic Trust awards
free land, closer to home
desacralizing the landscape
lost in Morris County
Walnford Plantation, Waterloo Village & Millbrook Village
favorites
demolition derby or adaptive reuse?
Preservation New Jersey annual meeting