Grace Episcopal Church parish, organized April 14, 1873, began plans for the building of the structure pictured here, at 415 W. 13th, in 1889. The Guild Hall (right) was completed in March, 1890. The church building proper was first occupied Dec. 16, 1894, and it was consecrated May 15, 1898, by Bishop Edward R. Atwill. Frederick E. Hill was the architect. The cost of the structure was $100,000. (Hill also drew the plans for old Convention Hall.) Whitney's Kansas City History, published in 1908, described the church: Grace Church is an imposing stone edifice, designed after the transitional Norman-Gothic architecture. The church contains five memorial windows made by the best artists in stained glass. The lectern, a memorial to Mrs. Aileen March Wilson, is a beautiful work in carved oak, made by the most artistic wood carver in America. Guild Hall contains a valuable collection of proof engravings of religious subjects by old masters. The natural field-stone walls of the church are unplastered on the interior, leaving the impressive handiwork of the stone artisans exposed. Today Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral is the seat of the Episcopal diocese of west Missouri, of which the Rt. Rev. Arthur A. Vogel is bishop. The Very Rev. Eugene G. Malcolm is dean of the cathedral. Kansas City Star, February 22, 1975.
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