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{{Infobox church
| name = St. Paul's Episcopal Church
| image = StPaulsEpiscopalEvansville2019.jpg
| caption = St. Paul's Episcopal Church in 2019
| former_names =
| denomination = [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal Church]]
| location = {{flagicon|USA}} [[Evansville]], [[Vanderburgh County, Indiana]], United States
| bishop = [[Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows]], Bishop of Indianapolis
| rector = Holly Rankin Zaher
| diocese = [[Episcopal Diocese of Indianapolis]]
| district =
| founder = [[Jackson Kemper]]
| founded date = 1836
| years built = 1886
| architect = [[Reid & Reid]]
| style = English [[Gothic Revival architecture|Gothic Revival]]
| website = {{url|http://stpaulsevv.org}}
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| built = 1886
| architect = [[Reid & Reid]]
| architecture = English [[Gothic Revival architecture|Gothic Revival]]
| added = November 14, 1978
| area = {{convert|0.3|acre}}
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'''St. Paul's Episcopal Church''' is an [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal]] [[parish church]] located in [[Evansville, Indiana]], within the [[Episcopal Diocese of Indianapolis]]. The parish was formally organized in 1836 after a missionary visit from Bishop [[Jackson Kemper]].<ref name="whitehead">{{cite book |last1=Whitehead |first1=Dorothy A |title=St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Evansville, Indiana - The First 150 Years (Bachelors Thesis) |date=November 1987 |publisher=University of Evansville, College of Graduate and Continuing Studies |page=3 |edition=1st}}</ref> The present-day church building was erected in 1886 on the corner of 1st and Chestnut St. in downtown Evansville to replace the parish's first church built on the same site. Designed by architects [[James W. Reid (architect)|James W. Reid]] & [[Merritt J. Reid]], the [[Gothic Revival architecture|English Gothic Revival]]-style structure was constructed with [[Indiana Limestone|Bedford limestone]] and trimmed with Green River limestone. St. Paul's is known for being the home parish of various prominent figures in Evansville's history. It is also known for its community service, including a weekend soup kitchen through Sr. Joanna's Table.

St. Paul's Episcopal Church was added to the [[National Register of Historic Places]] on July 17, 1978 as part of the larger [[Riverside Historic District (Evansville, Indiana)|Riverside Historic District]] in downtown Evansville.<ref name="SHAARD">{{cite web| url = https://secure.in.gov/apps/dnr/shaard/welcome.html| title = Indiana State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD) | publisher = Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology | format = Searchable database| accessdate = 2016-08-01}} ''Note:'' This includes {{cite web| url =https://secure.in.gov/apps/dnr/shaard/r/16fe3/N/Riverside_HD_Vanderburgh_CO_Nom.pdf| title = National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Riverside Historic District| accessdate = 2016-08-01| author=Nancy J. Long |display-authors=etal | date=June 1978}}, [https://secure.in.gov/apps/dnr/shaard/r/6dfc4/N/Riverside_HD,_Evansville_MAP_1of2.pdf Site map 1], [https://secure.in.gov/apps/dnr/shaard/r/6dfc6/N/Riverside_HD,_Evansville,_MAP_2of2.pdf Site map 2], [https://secure.in.gov/apps/dnr/shaard/r/493bb/N/Riverside_HD_quad_map.pdf Quad map], and Accompanying photographs</ref>

==History==
[[Evansville]]'s first Episcopalians organized themselves as St. Paul's parish, the first [[Protestantism|Protestant]] Episcopal parish in Evansville on January 9, 1836. Rev. Archibald H. Lamon served as the first rector from 1836-1844. The congregation met in the first [[Vanderburgh County]] Courthouse until January 12, 1840, when the first church building on 1st and Chestnut was consecrated by Bishop Jackson Kemper.<ref name="whitehead"/>{{rp|3}} After Rev. Lamon left the congregation in March 1844 to pursue missionary work in Louisiana, the congregation went through a series of rectors as follows:
* Rev. B.H. Hicox (invited 1844, died before assuming duties)
* Rev. William Vaux (1844-1845, educated in England, brought to America by Bishop Kemper, left to become US army chaplain on the western frontier)<ref name="Morris">{{cite journal |last1=Morris |first1=Charles A. |title=Early Immigrants Sought Aid From England |journal=Indiana Magazine of History |date=December 1951 |volume=47 |issue=4 |pages=377–379 |jstor=27787986 }}</ref>
* Rev. N.A. Okeson (1845-1846)
* Rev. Colley A. Foster (1847-1856)
* Rev. Anthony Ten Broeck (1856-1857)
* Rev. Sidney Wilbur (1857-1859)
* Rev. Elias Birdsall (1860-1864, left to become the first rector of [[Cathedral Center of St. Paul, Los Angeles|St. Athanasius Episcopal Church]] in [[Los Angeles]], the first Protestant Episcopal parish in Southern California)<ref name="Birdsall">{{cite web |title=Elias Birdsall |url=https://episcopalweb.org/elias-birdsall.html |website=episcopalweb.org |publisher=The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles |accessdate=30 January 2019}}</ref>
* Rev. H.W. Spaulding (1865-1867)
* Rev. W.H. Van Antwerp (1868-1874)
* Rev. W.N. Webbe (1874-1879)
* Rev. Theodore I. Holcombe (1880-1881)
* Rev. Charles Morris (1881-1894)

Under the leadership of Rev. Morris, St. Paul's Episcopal parish vestry passed a resolution to build a new church building. The final service in the first church building was held on April 15, 1883. While construction ensued, a congregant and frequent benefactor, Charles Viele, offered the use of Viele Hall (located on 2nd street between Main and Sycamore streets) to St. Paul's parish. The cornerstone for new St. Paul's was laid on September 3, 1883, and construction completed on March 2, 1886 with [[David Buel Knickerbacker|Bishop D.B. Knickerbacker]] consecrating the new building. Charles and Mary Viele continued to sponsor further construction on the church grounds - first with a rectory (1886) and later a chapel named in honor of the Viele family (1887).<ref name="whitehead"/>{{rp|39}}

The next series of rectors were as follows:
* Rev. W. Northey Jones (1894-1897)
* Rev. [[Joseph Marshall Francis]] (1897-1899, later became Bishop of Diocese of Indianapolis)
* Rev. Dr. John Davis (1899-1904, a former theology teacher at an Episcopal mission in Japan)<ref name="Abbott">{{cite book |last1=Abbott |first1=Edward |title=Japan and the Nippon Sei Kokwai (The Holy Catholic Church of Japan): A Sketch of the Work of the American Episcopal Church |date=1900 |publisher=Church Missions Publishing Company |location=Cambridge, MA |page=[https://archive.org/details/japannipponseiko00abbo/page/n9 2] |url=https://archive.org/details/japannipponseiko00abbo |quote=Rev. Dr. John Davis episcopal japan. |accessdate=30 January 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
* Rev. William Reid Cross (1904-1911)
* Rev. John Boden (1911-1913)
* Rev. Horace Weeks Jones (1914, died in an automobile accident)
* Rev. A.L. Murray (1914-1918)
* Rev. W.R. Plummer (1918-1923, died during mid-week service in Viele chapel of heart attack)
* Rev. E. Ainger Powell (1923-1931), later became rector of [[Christ Church Cathedral, Indianapolis|Christ Church Cathedral]] in Indianapolis<ref>{{cite web |last1=Fisher |first1=Bobbi |title=REV. JAMES DOWDELL STANLEY AND FAMILY MATERIALS, CA. 1877–2013 |url=https://indianahistory.org/wp-content/uploads/rev-james-dowdell-stanley-and-family-materials.pdf |publisher=Indiana Historical Society |accessdate=1 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Living Church, Volume 117 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RFfkAAAAMAAJ&dq=Rev.+E.+Ainger+Powell+evansville&pg=PA78 |website=The Living Church (Archives) |publisher=The Living Church |accessdate=8 April 2019|year = 1948}}</ref>
* Rev. Joseph G. Moore (1932-1943)

Rev. Moore served as a dynamic leader not only at St. Paul's but also in the broader Southwestern Indiana community. During the Great Depression when nearby Episcopal churches could not afford full-time clergy, he made time to visit these parishes for services to keep them open. He formed a cadre of laypeople assist him in these services, which became known as the Evansville Associate Mission of Southwestern Indiana.<ref name="whitehead"/>{{rp|71}} Rev. Moore also was a strong advocate for civil rights causes. He held the position of National Field Secretary for the Church League for Industrial Democracy, which brought him into contact with activists [[AJ Muste]] & [[Claude C. Williams|Claude C Williams]], [[Leon Trotsky]]'s bodyguard Henry Schnautz, and other socialists of the 1930s.<ref name="priest">{{cite web |last1=Priest |first1=Terry |title=John Malone letter 1939-8-28 |url=http://www.frfly.com/esp/trotsky/w_1939_8_28.htm |website=www.frfly.com |accessdate=30 January 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Priest |first1=Terry |title=Letter to Henry Schnautz Regarding Ruby Weil |url=http://www.frfly.com/esp/trotsky/w_1940_9_9.htm |website=www.frfly.com |accessdate=31 January 2019}}</ref> Rev. Moore supported local labor unions and condemned corrupt local elections through the League for Clean Elections.<ref name="priest">{{cite web |last1=Priest |first1=Terry |title=John Malone letter 1939-8-28 |url=http://www.frfly.com/esp/trotsky/w_1939_8_28.htm |website=www.frfly.com |accessdate=30 January 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Dawson |first1=Therese |title=View Image - Clip Taken From "'Reverend Joe' Welcomed Home" |url=http://local.evpl.org/views/viewimage.asp?ID=985432 |accessdate=31 January 2019 |work=Evansville Courier & Press |date=October 3, 1982}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Gellman |first1=Erik S. |last2=Roll |first2=Jarod |title=The Gospel of the Working Class: Labor's Southern Prophets in New Deal America |date=June 28, 2011 |publisher=University of Illinois Press |isbn=978-0252078408 |page=120 |edition=1st |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Hwnc0xfiy8C&dq=rev+joe+moore+episcopal+evansville&pg=PA120 |accessdate=8 April 2019}}</ref>

Rev. Moore also played a significant role in creating better race relations in Evansville. During World War II, Rev. Moore & the vestry invited a group of black workers in the [[Civilian Conservation Corps]] & their African-American Episcopalian chaplain to worship at St. Paul's on Sundays - the first documented integrated church service in Evansville. This action was taken despite the bishop's opposition to a previously integrated mid-week service. In addition, Rev. Moore brought future Supreme Court justice [[Thurgood Marshall]] to Evansville for help in creating a local chapter of the [[NAACP]].<ref name="whitehead"/>{{rp|79}}

In 1937, Evansville experienced a severe [[Ohio River flood of 1937|flood]] which severely damaged the interior of St. Paul's. The flood damage later contributed to the shorting out of wiring connected to the organ, causing a massive fire on March 27, 1938.<ref name="whitehead"/>{{rp|75}} Between the flood and the fire, the interior was gutted and remodeled while the exterior stonework remained.

After Rev. Moore left to become a US army chaplain in February 1943, Rev. Imri Blackburn became rector and served until February 14, 1954 when he resigned to accept a professorship at Seabury Western Seminary. The next series of rectors followed:
* Rev. W. Robert Webb (1954-1971)
* Rev. Richard Wyatt (1972-1978)
* Rev. Thomas N. Sandy (1978-1985)
* Rev. Henry Doherty (1985-1987)
* Rev. James B. Hempstead (1990-1998)
* Rev. Shane Scott-Hamblen (1999-2002)
* Rev. J. Raymond Lord (2002-2003)
* Rev. Richard R. Godbold (2003-2016)

In 2017, St. Paul's vestry invited Rev. Holly Rankin Zaher to be the first female rector of the parish.<ref>{{cite web |title=Staff – St. Paul's Episcopal Church |url=http://stpaulsevv.org/about/staff/ |website=St. Paul's Episcopal Church |accessdate=30 January 2019}}</ref>

===Notable people===
* [[Charles Harvey Denby]]
* [[Edwin Denby (politician)]]
* [[Charles Denby Jr.]]
* [[Gordon Granger]], married his wife Maria at St. Paul's in 1869<ref name="Conner">{{cite book |last1=Conner |first1=Robert |title=General Gordon Granger: The Savior of Chickamauga and the Man Behind "Juneteenth" |date=2013 |publisher=Casemate |isbn=978-1612001852 |page=200 |edition=1st |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hp_UAgAAQBAJ&dq=gordon+granger+st.+paul%27s+episcopal&pg=PA200 |accessdate=30 January 2019}}</ref>

==Worship services==
* Sunday worship services: 8 a.m. (Rite I), 10:30 a.m. (Rite II with sung choral)
* Weekday worship services: [[Eucharist]] at noon<ref>{{cite web |title=Worship – St. Paul's Episcopal Church |url=http://stpaulsevv.org/worship/ |accessdate=30 January 2019}}</ref>

==Pictures==
<gallery>
St. Paul's Episcopal Church (Evansville, Indiana).jpg
Wow stpaul.jpg
Baptismalfont.jpg|Baptismal Font & Northside Facing Stained Glass Window
Service123.jpg
</gallery>

==References==
{{Reflist}}{{National Register of Historic Places in Indiana}}

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[[Category:Episcopal Church in Indiana]]
[[Category:Churches in Evansville, Indiana]]
[[Category:Churches completed in 1886]]
[[Category:National Register of Historic Places in Evansville, Indiana]]
[[Category:Religious organizations established in 1836]]
[[Category:Gothic Revival church buildings in Indiana]]
[[Category:Reid & Reid buildings]]

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