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Description

English: Church of the Advocate, a National Historic Landmark in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Building/structure dates: 1890 initial construction
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 80003620
Significance: It is the consummate example of French Gothic Revival architecture in America dating from late in the 19th century. While the sanctuary's unique form drawn from a variety of French sources is significant in its own right, the church's lavish decorative program vaults the structure forward as one of the nation's finest religious edifices. In a Ruskinian mode, skilled artisans were given free range in sculpting and carving the high gothic foliage, figures, pinnacles, crockets, geometric patterning, and furniture. The church's lavish architectural ornament is exceeded only by its nearly seventy stained glass windows designed by a preeminent English firm and comprising a full complex program unmatched by other period ecclesiastical construction...

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Library of Congress, Historic American Buildings Survey: HABS PA,51-PHILA,734-2

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