Grace Universalist Church

Grace Universalist Church is a historic church building at 44 Princeton Boulevard in Lowell, Massachusetts. Built in 1896, the building housed a Universalist congregation until 1973, when it was sold to a Greek Orthodox congregation. It is now known as the St. George Hellenic Orthodox Church. The building is a 2+12-story brick structure, with an eclectic mix of Romanesque, Beaux Arts, and Classical Revival details. Its single most notable feature is a 70-foot (21 m) masonry dome designed by Rafael Guastavino Sr. and supervised by Rafael Guastavino Jr. in 1895.[2]

Grace Universalist Church
Grace Universalist Church is located in Massachusetts
Grace Universalist Church
Grace Universalist Church is located in the United States
Grace Universalist Church
Location44 Princeton Boulevard
Lowell, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°38′07″N 71°19′58″W / 42.63528°N 71.33278°W / 42.63528; -71.33278
Built1895-6
NRHP reference No.11000069[1]
Added to NRHPMarch 11, 2011

The church is significant as a very early tile vaulted dome built by the immigrant architects Rafael Guastavino Sr. and Jr. in the United States.[3] The church building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ "NRHP nomination for Grace Universalist Church". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-01-28.
  3. ^ Ochsendorf, John (2020-03-01). "Tile Vaulting Innovations by Rafael Guastavino Jr. and Eduardo Torroja". Journal of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures. 61 (1): 59–66. doi:10.20898/j.iass.2020.203.021. ISSN 1028-365X.