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St. Luke’s English Evangelical Lutheran Church, Lafayette Hilltop

St. Luke’s Evangelical English Lutheran Church

This fine building, put up in 1912, is well preserved but unused, and we hope it can be kept in good shape. It sits in the Perry Hilltop part of Lafayette Hilltop—“Perry South” on city planning maps. It was designed by Chancey or Chauncey W. Hodgdon (we have found the name spelled both ways), in an interesting combination of styles—round arches for the smaller windows, broad Gothic arches for the large windows, and a Tudor Gothic arcade in the front; except that the arches are more rounded than usual Tudor arches. Perhaps an architectural historian can nail down the style precisely, or perhaps it is simply unique to Hodgdon.

Arcade
Front
Date stone

The Allegheny City Society has a substantial article about this church in the spring 2017 issue of the society newsletter (PDF).

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