Platteville, WI. – The Wisconsin Historical Society announces the listing of Trinity Episcopal Church in Platteville (Grant County) on the State Register of Historic Places.
Trinity Episcopal Church is notable as Platteville’s best preserved mid-nineteenth-century church. In more than 150 years of continuous use, the church has had no substantial alterations to its original Gothic Revival design. Defining features include pointed-arch windows and doorways, a steeply pitched gable roof with decorative brickwork along the cornice, stone-capped brick buttresses along exterior walls, a dominant front tower with pointed-arch belfry openings, and an ornate interior with decoratively carved wood detailing.
Trinity Episcopal Church was constructed between 1863 and 1865 following a design by prolific Janesville architect Garry Nettleton, who would later design Platteville’s National Register listed First Congregational Church. Though modest in size, Trinity Episcopal Church is a good example of the Gothic Revival style that had become popular in Wisconsin between about 1850 and 1880.
The State Register is Wisconsin’s official list of state properties determined to be significant to Wisconsin’s heritage. The State Historic Preservation Office at the Wisconsin Historical Society administers both the State Register and National Register in Wisconsin.
Additional information for Trinity Episcopal Church is available at
https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Property/HI46421
To learn more about the State and National Register programs in Wisconsin, visit: www.wisconsinhistory.org.
