St. Andrew's Episcopal Church (Albany, New York)

St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
South and east elevations, 2011
Religion
Affiliation	Episcopal Church
Leadership	The Rev. Mary Robinson White
Year consecrated	1947[1]
Location
Location	Albany, NY, USA
Geographic coordinates	42°39′53″N 73°47′17″W / 42.66472°N 73.78806°W / 42.66472; -73.78806
Architecture
Architect(s)	Norman R. Sturgis; Fred Eckel Jr.[2]
Style	Late Gothic Revival
Groundbreaking	1930
Completed	1931
Construction cost	$250,000[3]
Specifications
Direction of façade	South
Materials	stone, tile, copper
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Added to NRHP	January 7, 2005
NRHP Reference no.	04001447[4]
Website
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Albany, NY

St. Andrew's Episcopal Church is located at North Main and Madison (U.S. Route 20) avenues in Albany, New York, United States. It is a complex of three buildings, centered on the church itself, a stone structure designed by architect Norman Sturgis in the Late Gothic Revival architectural style and built in 1930. In 2005 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.^[4]

The congregation was established by a downtown church, St. Paul's, from a neighborhood mission near the end of the 19th century. It was one of the first churches started in the suburban areas of the city, as it expanded away from its historic core. St. Andrew's soon built its own church (since demolished to make room for the current attached parish house) and established itself as a separate parish.

Sturgis' structure was meant to embody the ideals of his mentor, Ralph Adams Cram, which valued the English Gothic styles as ideal for Episcopal and Anglican worship since such buildings were where it had originally been practiced. Accordingly, it is modeled in part on St. Albans Abbey in Hertfordshire, England, and a Roman brick from that location was placed in the hyphen between the church and the parish hall. But it is not an exact copy, and Sturgis himself described it as "an attempt to express fundamental truths in a new way to tell an old, old story in new words". It is considered one of the best examples of the 20th-century Late Gothic Revival style in Albany.