Church of the Holy Cross Destroyed in Hurricane of 1880

Church of the Holy Cross Destroyed in Hurricane of 1880

Holy Cross Destroyed by Hurricane

Episcopal Church--Florida

Carpenter gothic (Architecture)

Upjohn, Richard, 1802-1878

Buildings--Florida

Hurricane damage--Florida

Sanford (Fla.)

Churches--Florida

Hurricanes--Florida

The Holy Cross Episcopal Church, located at 410 South Magnolia Avenue in Sanford, Florida after the Hurricane of 1880. On August 29, 1880, a Category 2 hurricane made landfall near Saint Augustine, affecting areas from the Jupiter Inlet to the mouth of the St. Johns River to the Gulf of Mexico.

Gertrude Dupuy Sanford, the wife of General Henry S. Sanford (1823-1891), established the Holy Cross Episcopal Church in 1873. The church was consecrated on April 20, 1873, and became the first Episcopal mission in Central Florida. The original Holy Cross was designed by famed architect Richard Upjohn in the Carpenter Gothic architectural style. During the summer of 1880, the original Holy Cross was destroyed by a hurricane.

Following the destruction of the original Holy Cross, Henry and Gertrude Sanford raised money for the construction of a second church. The second Holy Cross Church was completed in 1880, but was destroyed by a fire in 1923. The third church built on the site following the destruction of the second was designed by Elton Moughton, a local architect, and completed in 1924. The third Holy Cross church was built in the “pre-depression” Spanish Mediterranean style.

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Original 8.5 x 11 inch black and white photoprint by Chase & Company, 1880: Chase Collection (MS 14), box 211, folder 3.30A, item CC 117, Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

1880

Digital reproduction of original 8.5 x 11 inch black and white photoprint by Chase & Company.

Chase Collection (MS 14), box 211, folder 3.30A, Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

Holy Cross Episcopal Church Collection, Sanford Collection, Chase Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.

Folder referenced in Chase Collection finding guide, http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/chase.htm.

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Entire Chase Collection is comprised of four separate accessions from various donors, including Cecilia Johnson, the granddaughter of Joshua Coffin Chase and the children of Randall Chase.

The displayed collection item is housed at Special and Area Studies Collections at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. Rights to this item belong to the said institution, and therefore inquiries about the item should be directed there. RICHES of Central Florida has obtained permission from Special and Area Studies Collections at the University of Florida to display this item for educational purposes only.

Special and Area Studies Collections, University of Florida

Marra, Katherine

Brochure, Bette Skates, Bette. The History of Holy Cross Episcopal Church, Sanford, Florida. 2004.

Sanford Historical Society, Inc. Sanford. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2003.

Henry Shelton Sanford Papers, General Sanford Memorial Library, Sanford Museum, Sanford, Florida.

"Holy Cross Episcopal Church est. 1873." Holy Cross Episcopal Church. http://www.sanfordholycrossepiscopal.com/history.html.

Sandrik, Al and Christopher W. Landsea. "Chronological Listing of Tropical Cyclones affecting North Florida and Coastal Georgia 1565-1899." Hurricane Research Division, Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory. http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/Landsea/history/index.html.

"Holy Cross Episcopal Church est. 1873"

"Chronological Listing of Tropical Cyclones affecting North Florida and Coastal Georgia 1565-1899"

Church of Holy Cross
destroyed in
HURRICANE of 1880

1 black and white photograph

8.5 x 11 inch