Tag: Trinity Episcopal Church (Washington DC)

Street of Washington website says: Trinity Episcopal Church once stood majestically on the northeast corner of 3rd and C Streets NW, an intersection now overwhelmed by the U.S. Labor Department’s sprawling Frances Perkins Building. When it was completed in 1851, Trinity was one of the most distinguished houses of worship in the city, and its congregation included civic leaders and other important Washingtonians who paid for the privilege of good seats in the church. Yet sweeping neighborhood changes would eventually spell the congregation’s doom. The elite neighborhood declined precipitously after the Civil War as wealthy congregants moved to newer residential communities farther to the northwest. Unable to sustain itself, the church was dissolved in 1922 and its beautiful building torn down in 1936—so that the land could be used for a parking lot.