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St. Mary's Seminary Chapel

Architectural Survey File

This is the architectural survey file for this MIHP record. The survey file is organized reverse-

chronological (that is, with the latest material on top). It contains all MIHP inventory forms, National

Register nomination forms, determinations of eligibility (DOE) forms, and accompanying documentation

such as photographs and maps.

Users should be aware that additional undigitized material about this property may be found in on-site

architectural reports, copies of HABS/HAER or other documentation, drawings, and the “vertical files” at

the MHT Library in Crownsville. The vertical files may include newspaper clippings, field notes, draft

versions of forms and architectural reports, photographs, maps, and drawings. Researchers who need a

thorough understanding of this property should plan to visit the MHT Library as part of their research

project; look at the MHT web site (mht.maryland.gov) for details about how to make an appointment.

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Last Updated: 03-10-2011

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St . Mary ' s :?eminary Chapel is an "A" roof structure, three bays wide, four bays deep and one and a half stories high. It is set on a high basement with round arched windows set into rectangular insets .

Constructed from 1806 to 1808 by Maximilien Godefroy, it is a small brick chapel slightly l ess than ninety feet long and seventy feet wide . It would appear that the chapel incorporates the structure 'of an earlier building and that the Neo-Gothic design of the architect was forced to fit it . This suggestion has been advanced on some convincing structural evidence .

In plan, the central space of the chapel is composed of the nave , which is 50 ' 7" long by 36 ' wide including the narrow side aisles which are 4 1

9\" wide each. The nave is lit by three window bays on either side . The moulded brick enframements of these windows have been added and the bricks in the nave walls are 8 1/ 2" x 4 1/811 x 2.\" . as compared to 8 3/8" x 434" x 2 3/8" on the front elevation. The side aisles are divided from the nave by narrowly spaced Neo-Gothic columns 5 ' 8" on center . The nine bays and eight columns , arranged on this module , allow the windows to be centered on every third bay.

The sanctuary with a semi-circular apse is s eparated from the nave by three steps. The sanctuary floor is 18" higher than .that of the nave . Immediately at the top step, the change in module between the sanctuary and the nave is marked by a pair of engaged columns on either side , 3' 7" on center, with solid wall between them . The engaged columns of the sanctuary are t:Wo bays deep, 9' on center and then terminated by the semi­circul ar apse which has a radius of 12 ' 5". Flanking the sanctuary are the north and south transept. They are both simp le rectangular spaces 19 1 6" (one bay) wide and 29' (three bays) long.

The first three bays of the nave carry the balcony over the west entrance . The width of the nave between the side aisles is the same width as the sanctuary. Therefore , the shallow vaulted ceiling of plaster on wood lathe is carried uninterrupted on a continuous decorative wooden cornice from one end of the chapel to the other. The ceil ing has delicate fa lse ribs in imitation of cross vaulting above the nave and the sanctuary . The change in modu le between nave and sanctuary is handled by the inser­tion of a decorative band 3 1 7" wide where the two spaces meet above the paired engaged columns. The wooden nave columns and those of the sanctuary are of near l y identical design. The shafts of those in the nave are 1 1 3 3/4" in diameter and are quatrefoi l in plan. They have acanthus l eaf capitals somewhat c l assical in appearance. Below t he c apitals at t he top of the shafts are eight evenly spaced i~verted acorns. The balcony railing is made up of panel s of pierced Neo- Gothic decorative elements above a continuous c l assical Greek-bay band .

From the exterior, the chapel has an elaborate Neo- Gothic false front on the west elevation virtually stuck onto the nave. The side elevation walls have brick buttresses between the three window bays, and basement

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7. Description: (1) St . Mary ' s Seminary Chapel

windows with flat jack arches underneath the first two nave window bays . These basement windows light the crypt. The main body of the church has a gable roof. The portion of the roof over the side aisles has a shallower pitch t han the central section. Later additions obscure the eastern e levation of the chapel.

The west front of the church appears to have been built across the gable end of an earlier building . It has a three-bay cent~al section slightly wider than the nave and side aisles behind it. This section has a central entrance doorway reached by a flight of nine stone steps . On either side of the double doors are engaged columns in molded brick carrying a Gothic arch with a keystone. The transom is not gl~zed but is a wooden panel with a trefoil design . On either side of the front entrance, in positions shown occupied by windows in the Godefroy drawings, are two niches with Gothic arches . They are intended for sculpture .

The cornice line of the chapel is carried around the west elevation and expressed by a more elaborate Neo-Gothic stucco cornice than that on the rest of the building . Above this cornice is a high rectangular brick parapet with a centra l circular window flanked by blind lancet arcades. This parapet masks the gable end of the chapel roof. To stabilize the para­pet, brick flying buttresses from the side walls of the nave support it from the back. On either side of the main block of the west front are two l ow spur elements, near l y square in plan . They both ha~e arched entrances front and rear and a window bay in the end elevation. The west elevation of the transepts have crenellated mock battlements to hide the sloping shed roof behind.

Included within the original 6.5 acres are two other buildings, Mother Seton House and Saint Mary's Seminary Building. The Mother Seton House is a two-and-one-half story red brick house similar to other small homes built i n the early 1800's for the predominately French corrununity nearby. It stands detached and is somewhat larger in scale and more pretentious in design than the similar smal l houses in the city . Mother Seton described i t in one of her letters as being surrounded by orchards and French in design . For this reason, and because the Frenchman Maximilien Godefroy , the architect of St . Mary ' s Seminary Chapel, was an instructor in drawing a t the Seminary at that time, there has been speculation that he may have designed this building, too. The purpose for which the house was originally erected has l ong been forgotten; however, it was offered as an inducement to Elizabeth Seton to come to Bal timore in 1808 and there to found a schoo l and occupy the then newly completed house.

The Seminary Building is a large brick institutional structure in the 2nd Empire Style , St. Mary ' s Seminary Building exemp l ifing the French-inspired Victorian public architecture of the 1870 1 s. 2nd Emp ire Revival was almost the official style, being used by A. B. Mullet and William A. Potter,

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Architects of the United States Treasury in the early 1870 ' s; practiced by men such as Henry Hobson Richardson in his early works, Ware and Van Brunt, and George B. Post, etc., and contemporaneous with such French architects as Lefeul and Labrouste .

Although not individually r ecognized as National Historic Landmarks, these buildings are within the landmark boundary and included individually on the National Register of Historic Places. Together all three structures main­tain the historical integrity of the entire property.

Boundary

St. Mary ' s Seminary Chapel is located on the 6.5 acres of the St . Mary ' s Seminary School building grounds within the 23 acre Seton Hill Historic District. It is adjacent to the school building at a southwest/northeast angle. The St . Mary ' s Seminary property is bounded on the north by the south side of Druid Hill Avenue, on the east by the west side of Paca Street, on the south by the north side of the property on the north side of Franklin Street, on the southwest by the north side of the property on the north side of Pennsylvania Avenue, and on the northwest by the east side of St. Mary ' s Street. The front facade of the chapel faces southwest.

NCYI'E : About six months after the preparation of t 1is·form, St. Mary ' s Seminary Building was demolished. This does not affect the landmark boundary for St . ?1ary 1 s Seminary Chapel which was established independently of the Seminary building .

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Saint Mary's Seminary Chapel in Baltimore, Ma ryland was designed in the Neo-Gothic style and built by the French architect Maximilien Godefroy between 1806 and 1808. Godefroy ' s original design fortunately survives I in drawings (1806-1807) of the facade, plan, altar , and ciborium as he proposed they should be built . Therefore , it is possible to compare the Chapel as it was first built with Godefroy ' s design, a process necessary because the Sulp i c ian Fa thers modif i ed the scheme in the course of con­struction. This small bri ck buildi ng occupies a unique position in the history of American architec ture . It is the first church in the Neo­Gothic styl e to be built in the United States. Considering the national prominence this style was to achieve l a t er in the 19th century , especially in religious architec t ure , it is of s pecial importance to mark its beg inning in t his s truc t ure. The h i story of t he Chapel is important to the history of American architecture in three ways. First, the original Godefroy design reveals the sources with which an early nineteenth-century architect tra i ned in Europe worked as he composed in the •Gothick4 style. Secondly, the Chapel is relevant because its nineteenth-and- twentieth-century history preserves a record of changing attitudes to Gothic reviva l i sm in the United States. Finally , the renovation and restoration of the Chapel in 1967-1968, under t he direction of Alexander Cochran, F .A.I.A. , presents the prob l ems implicit in the accommodation which must be made in such work when an early building of refined and positive stylistic qualit i es mus t go on, not as a preserved monument , but as a functioning part of contemporary life.l

I Stanton, Phoebe, " St. Mary ' s Chape l, Bal timore, by Godefroy: The History and Restoration History of an Early Gothic Building, 11 Journal of tl-t.fe Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. XXVIII, #3.

History

St. Mary ' s Seminary Chapel, constructed from 1806-1808, was designed by one of the notable early nineteenth-century architects in America, Maximilien Godefroy, fo r the Sulpician priests of St . Mary ' s Seminary . The Seminary , founded i n 1791, is the oldest Catholic seminary in the United States .

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Form l0-300a (July 1969)

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St . Mary ' s Seminary Chapel

The bricks used in the construction of the Chapel were originally purchased for Benjamin H. Latrobe's Basilica of the Assumption. How~ver, when it was decided to build the Basilica of stone, the bricks were sold to St . Mary's Chapel building committee who purchased them with $3000"given by Charles Carroll of Carrollton, one of the four Maryland signers of the Declaration of Independence and a frequent contributor to Seminary projects .

Present at the June 19, 1808 dedication of the Chapel were two prominent American Catholics, later closely associated with the Chape l : Bishop John Carro ll (1735-1815) and Mrs. Elizabeth Seton , also known as Mother Seton (1774- 1821) . Mrs. Seton, a convert to Catholicism, founded the Order of St . Joseph and was the aunt of Archbishop James Roosevelt Bayley (1814-1877). Mother Seton , the following year , in the Chapel in the presence of Bishop John Carroll, took her vows into the Order of St. Vincent de Paul.

Mrs . Seton, with the aid of her confessor, a priest in St. Mary 's Seminary, founded , in the basement of the Chapel, a school which l ater developed into St . Joseph ' s Convent or the Mother House of the American Sisters of Charity, and moved to Emmitsburg, Maryland .

At the same time the basement was used for services for black French Cathol ics who had f l ed to Baltimore from San Domingo during t he revolution 1791-1803 led by Touissant L'Ouverture. The Oblate Sisters of Providence, an order of blqck nuns, founded in the l ate 1820's, used the Chapel base­ment for the parochial education of black children.

The Chape l was used during the early years of the nineteenth century as a parish church for the French-speaking Cathol ics in Baltimore, many of whom also had f l ed from the Revolution i n San Domingo . The body of Bishop Carroll, who had attended the dedication , was temporarily buried in the Chapel in 1815 .

During the remainder of the nineteenth century and until 1969 the Chapel served the faculty and students of the Seminary. After the Seminary moved to Catonsville, Maryland, the Chapel has remained vacant a l though it has not been deconsecrated.

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6-3 Howland and Spencer , The Architecture of Baltimore , Baltimore , 1953 . Maryland Register of Historic Sites and Landmarks, Maryland Historica l Trust,

on file with National Register of Historic Places , Washington , D.C . , 1969 .

Scharf, J. Thomas, History of Baltimore Cit::t: and County from the Earliest Period to the Present Dal · . . ' Philadelphia, 1881 .

Semmes , Raphael, Baltimore As Seen by Its Visitors 1783-1860, Baltimore, 1953 .

Sioussat , Annie Leak in , Old Baltimore , New York , 1931. (continued)

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t ional Historic Preservation Act oC 1966 ( P ublic I.aw 1 hereby certiCy that this property is included in the

89-665). I hereby nominate th is proper ty for inclus ion Nationa l Regis te r.

in the National Register and c er tiCy that it has been (: .. : . . .. [ Lc,,rl·:;;--k Pval uat ed accord in~ lo the ··-iter i.a and proced.i res set L:'. ,

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9. Major Bibliographical References: (1) St. Mary's Seminary Chapel

Stanton, Phoebe, "St. Mary's Chapel, Baltimore, by Godefroy; The History and Restoration History of an Early Gothic Building," Journa l of the Society of Architectural Historians, Volumne XXVIII, No. 3.

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