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Church of the Epiphany, Providence (Mss. Gr. 227)

University of Rhode Island, University Archives and Special Collections

15 Lippitt Road
Kingston, RI 02881-2011
Tel: 401-874-4632

email: archives@etal.uri.edu

Inventory

Inventory

Series 1. Subject Series
Box 1, Folder 1-39
The Subject series contains bound volumes of vestry and annual minutes of meetings and other committee minutes, various building committee accounts and reports. Photographs documenting the installation of the 1951 organ are prominent as are the documents relating to the 1879 building of the church. There is scant documentation of the church in the latter part of the 20th century.

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 1 Act of Incorporation
1875
Box 1, Folder 2 Annual and Vestry Meetings
1873-1901
Box 1, Folder 3 Annual and Vestry Meetings
1901-1919
Box 1, Folder 4 Annual and Vestry Meetings
1920-1940
Box 1, Folder 5 Annual and Vestry Meetings
1940-1953
Box 1, Folder 6 Bazaar Committee
1951
Box 2, Folder 7 Bulletins and Order of Church Service
1886, 1887, 1916, 1931, 1939
Box 2, Folder 7a By-Laws (1931 by-laws and misc. historical notes up to 1936)
undated
Box 2, Folder 8 Church building and repairs bills and receipts
1879-1880
Box 2, Folder 9 Church history
1947, 2009, undated
Box 2, Folder 10 Church building photographs, interiors
1886, 1889, 1940s, undated
Box 2, Folder 11 Church building photographs, exteriors
1886, 1889, undated
Box 2, Folder 12 Epiphany Brotherhood
1896-1900
Box 2, Folder 13 Fund account books
1902-1972
Box 2, Folder 14 Guild, minutes of meetings
1896-1910 Jun
Box 3, Folder 15 Guild, minutes of meetings
1910 Sep-1933
Box 3, Folder 16 Guild, Altar, minutes of meetings
1927-1946
Box 3, Folder 17 Guild, altar, minutes of meetings
1946-1972
Box 3, Folder 18 Guild, altar, treasurers book
1946-1965
Box 3, Folder 19 Land and building committees
1877, 1879, 1882, 1887 1904
Box 3, Folder 20 Manuals
1887-1888, undated
Box 3, Folder 21 Maps and plans (also in rolled tube at end of collection)
1879, 1967
Box 3, Folder 22 Memorials and gifts list (Book of Remembrances in box 7)
1880, 1882-1965
Box 3, Folder 23 Mortgage: Hope Elizabeth to church
1892, 1900
Box 3, Folder 24 Organ Committee
1951
Box 3, Folder 26 Organ recital (inaugural) program, Edward G. Jardine builder of the organ
1885 Nov 12
Box 0, Folder 25 Organ installation photographs
1951
Box 4, Folder 27 Parish House Fund (Also photograph 1812 breaking ground in box 7)
1906-1912
Box 4, Folder 28 Passion of St. Mathew (music and lyrics) undated
undated
Box 0, Folder 29 Proclamation, Church of the Epiphany Week, Mayor of Providence, Vincent Cianci
1975
Box 4, Folder 30 Profile
1980
Box 4, Folder 31 Rectory photographs
ca 1920s
Box 4, Folder 32 Rectors an parish correspondence Cross, Thomas William
1945 Jul-Oct 06
Box 4, Folder 33 Rectors and parish correspondence Misc.
1919-1953
Box 4, Folder 34 Rectors and parishioners photographs, (Also in Oversize Box 7)
1886 Jun, ca. 1940s-1980s
Box 4, Folder 35 Rectors acceptances and resignations
1876, 1880, 1882
Box 4, Folder 36 Renovations proposed
1937
Box 4, Folder 36 Sunday Rest Association
1894
Box 4, Folder 37 Treasurer's accounts (bound with Sunday Rest minute book)
1903-1931
Box 4, Folder 38 Treasurer's and financial miscellany
1898, 1933-1962, 1982
Box 4, Folder 39 Windows, description of
1947

Series 2. Registers
Box 1, Folder 1-9
The Church Registers contain births, burials, marriages and list of communicants from the establishment of a register in 1876 to the church's closure in 2009.

Container Description Date
Box 4, Folder 1 Register of church services
1988-2003
Box 4, Folder 2 Register of church services
2003-2009
Box 5, Folder 3 Register 1
1876-1892
Box 5, Folder 4 Register 2, list of communicants to 1909
1893-1901
Box 5, Folder 5 Register 3
1902-1910
Box 6, Folder 6 Register 4
1910-1924
Box 6, Folder 7 Register 5
1924-1953
Box 6, Folder 8 Register 6 , marriages only
1924-1953
Box 7, Folder 9 Register 7
1953-1976