Nantucket -- Richardsonian Romanesque was popular in the 1880s and often includes a massive tower such as this. It was the first American style to be imitated in Europe. But when this structure was erected in 1901, the French Beaux-Arts style was rising in the states. (Richardson was the second American citizen to be educated at the École des Beaux-Arts.) The church was the gift of Caroline Louisa Williams French, a summer resident of the island. The architect was Joseph Northrop of Connecticut. This is the third Episcopal church, the first having been lost in the Great Fire.Despite Nantucket being an English colony, the Episcopalians arrived late to this Quaker island and pretty much by accident. A young man came here to be a whaler but settled down and got married instead. He asked his Episcopalian minister father to marry him. The father did -- but stayed and founded the first Episcopalian parish here in 1838.
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