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+1⁄2-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]
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| Location | 44 Princeton Boulevard Lowell, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°38′07″N 71°19′58″W / 42.63528°N 71.33278°W |
| Built | 1895-6 |
| NRHP reference No. | 11000069[1] |
| Added to NRHP | March 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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edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Grace Universalist Church". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-01-28.
- ^ 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.
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