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Show (Cemutceimmuiaill gfittes St. Luke's Episcopal Church Editor's note: Each week throughout the centennial year a historical site in Park City will be identified with a descriptive plaque. By the end of the year the numbered num-bered markers will act as signposts to a self-guided tour of Park City. This week's centennial site is St. Luke's Episcopal Church, 525 Park Ave. In the 1870s Park City's reputation for ore deposits spread nationwide, and its accessibility was guaranteed guaran-teed by the arrival of the rails. Episcopalian ministers began to include the town on their missionary circuit. By the late 1880s a small but stable Episcopalian congregation congre-gation was established in Park City. A church was built two blocks south of this site in 1890 but was destroyed in the disastrous fire of 1898. At the turn of the century the Episcopalian congregation congrega-tion was flourishing. In 1901 a volunteer labor force was used to construct this one-story, one-story, frame, rectangular chapel in a simplified Gothic style. Reflecting the fluctuations in Park City's population and fortunes, the church was inactive and deconsecrated from 1947 to 1960. Services resumed in 1964, but the building was dilapidated from abandonment and disuse. Interest in restoration restora-tion began in 1978. Exterior elements have been carefully retained, while the interior has been modernized to serve the needs of its now thriving membership. The building has been nominated to the National Register of Historic Places. i i Y'.. t. L ' j n'4$ ::u - V4V; i a 4 f yBmm: - ; ;; ' 5k ' .7 EL-J r -a- ; ft - "T i -. l b x ' |