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Author: Frank Greenagel Publisher: ISBN: 9781494311032 Category : Languages : en Pages : 132
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The six chapters of this brief work are slightly-edited reprints of the Overview chapters from my books on the religious architecture of the state. Only a few readers will see more than one of those books (now 13 in all) yet there is good stuff in them and I am loath to see all of it disappear without a trace. Moreover, the overviews offer a quick means of getting a sense of the churchscape of a county-how many of the old buildings survive, the distribution among denominations, a sense of the major social and cultural factors (immigration, urbanization, wealth accumulation) that shaped the plan, location and style of the buildings. Although I have been working at this project for about 15 years, all of these chapters are from recently published works and represent my current thinking. The counties included (Burlington, Cumberland, Essex, Hudson, Morris and Warren) represent 565 of the estimated 1,500 remaining churches, meetinghouses and synagogues in the state. Five of the chapters are taken from books in print; I have not completed the Hudson work so that section may seem a bit disjointed; I have included it because Hudson represents a distinctive development that is not repeated elsewhere. The Overview is the last part of each book completed, excepting only the Index, and to some extent represents a summation of the most salient aspects of the county's ecclesiastical architecture.
Author: Frank Greenagel Publisher: ISBN: 9781494311032 Category : Languages : en Pages : 132
Book Description
The six chapters of this brief work are slightly-edited reprints of the Overview chapters from my books on the religious architecture of the state. Only a few readers will see more than one of those books (now 13 in all) yet there is good stuff in them and I am loath to see all of it disappear without a trace. Moreover, the overviews offer a quick means of getting a sense of the churchscape of a county-how many of the old buildings survive, the distribution among denominations, a sense of the major social and cultural factors (immigration, urbanization, wealth accumulation) that shaped the plan, location and style of the buildings. Although I have been working at this project for about 15 years, all of these chapters are from recently published works and represent my current thinking. The counties included (Burlington, Cumberland, Essex, Hudson, Morris and Warren) represent 565 of the estimated 1,500 remaining churches, meetinghouses and synagogues in the state. Five of the chapters are taken from books in print; I have not completed the Hudson work so that section may seem a bit disjointed; I have included it because Hudson represents a distinctive development that is not repeated elsewhere. The Overview is the last part of each book completed, excepting only the Index, and to some extent represents a summation of the most salient aspects of the county's ecclesiastical architecture.
Author: Frank L. Greenagel Publisher: Rutgers University Press ISBN: 9780813529905 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 276
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Although best known as the Garden State, New Jersey could also be called the Church State. The state boasts thousands of houses of worship, with more than one thousand still standing that were built in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Frank L. Greenagel has photographed more than six hundred. He has selected two hundred of these historic landmarks for an examination of why they are sited where they are and why they look the way they do. Greenagel has sought out and included images of not only mainstream Christian churches, but also Jewish synagogues as well as the places of worship of religious groups such as the Moravians, the Church of the Brethren, and the Seventh Day Baptists. The photographs are arranged chronologically within sections on three major early settlement regions of the state ¾ the Hudson River, the Delaware River, and the Raritan Valley. For each building, Greenagel details the date of construction, the cultural, historic, and religious influences that shaped it, the architectural details that distinguish it, and what purpose it currently serves.
Author: Frank Greenagel Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781492276166 Category : Languages : en Pages : 260
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Construction of a church in the rural areas of the county was driven largely by the activity of the circuit-riding Methodist preachers. By the 1850s other forces were afoot-a rising affluence, a merchant class in the large towns, and in general a popular culture that expressed itself as refinement. By that time, Methodists were the largest denomination in the state, and their buildings in the cities reflect that altered situation. In the small black and the miniscule Jewish communities, financial resources severely constrained the architectural expression of their piety. In mainstream Protestant congregations there were liturgical changes, too, as well as new manufacturing and construction methods which helped to shape the churchscape. Those factors will explain much of the distinctive characteristics of the county's antebellum churchscape. There are 80 surviving churches, meetinghouses and synagogues in Cumberland County that were erected before 1900, a third of which were erected by Methodists. Two are Quaker, five African Methodist, 12 Presbyterian, 14 Baptist and 32 Methodist (including four Methodist Protestant congregations). About 60 percent were erected in the decades following the Civil War. With a bit of imagination, one may find modest examples of the main currents in American architecture in the county, but few that merit more than a footnote in any textbook on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century religious architecture. This is in contrast to the several excellent brick residences in the county whose initials, dates and patterns in glazed brick are remarked on as a distinctively American regional style. Although the nineteenth century in general was a period of great social and political upheaval elsewhere in the state, it appears that Cumberland, like much of south Jersey, was relatively less affected by the massive immigration, industrialization and urbanization experienced in north Jersey. We should expect to see more continuity in the area's architectural styles, albeit with a modest degree of change in the architectural details, until the post-Civil War period, when new affluence and a shift in attitude in favor of more comfortable and stylish churches is to be seen.
Author: Frank L. Greenagel Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781493652402 Category : Church architecture Languages : en Pages : 0
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The Warren Churchscape (in a new revised edition) is a richly illustrated guide to all seventy of the 18th and 19th century churches and meetinghouses still standing in Warren County. Frank Greenagel, author of The New Jersey Churchscape and 12 other volumes on the old churches of New Jersey, and developer of the widely popular website, www.njchurchscape.com, explores and explains the history of Warren's religious buildings, from the earliest religious structure-a beautifully-restored stone Quaker meetinghouse on Scott's Mountain erected in 1753, to the stylish Episcopal church-St. Mary's-on the green in Belvidere. The subtitle of the book, Religious Architecture in 18th & 19th Century, suggests that the book goes well beyond an inventory of the old churches of the county; in fact, it might serve well as a basic reference on architectural styles and construction traditions during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In order to preserve the unique story of the structures, some in danger of being lost to history, Greenagel spent more than eight years in fieldwork and research, logging countless hours on the road, in the library and in the darkroom. This definitive volume will allow readers to look anew at the religious buildings of Warren, providing information for curious congregation members and historians alike. The book includes an outline of architectural styles, a brief account of the religious denominations operating in the state during the early centuries, a glossary of architectural terms, an extensive bibliography, and index. A separate section on 13 of the old churches of Easton and Riegelsville that served early Warren residents is appended, along with a fascinating account of the early 19th century Thatcher church which lies in ruins near Broadway.
Author: Frank Greenagel
Author: Frank Greenagel
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Author: Wallace N. Jamison
Author: William Nelson
Author: Episcopal Church. Diocese of New Jersey
Author: New Jersey Historical Records Survey Project
Author: Frank Greenagel
Author: Frank L. Greenagel
Author: New Jersey Historical Records Survey Project
Author: Thomas Sharp Griffiths