SAINT AGNES CATHOLIC
CHURCH
REHOBOTH BEACH
St. Agnes Catholic Church
was completed July 1st , 1906 and was the only Catholic
Church of Sussex County, Delaware, and was attended by a large number
of Baltimoreans who annually visit the resort.
It is a frame built
structure set to seat 200 people and adjoins the St, Agnes by the Sea
summer house of the Sisters of St. Francis, Brooklyn Avenue and
Boardwalk. The cost was $2300, half of which has been paid.
The church has a tower that contains a powerful light for mariners
and marks the wreck of the Merrimack at the foot of Brooklyn Avenue.
Heretofore, Catholic Services were held in a private
cottage.
A larger, $50,000 Gothic
architecture church structure, two years under construction, located
on a triangular corner lot at Laurel Street and King Charles Avenue,
to replace St. Agnes, held its first service Sunday, May 12, 1940, is
St. Edmond's Roman Catholic Church. This service was in charge of the
Rev. E. J. McCarthy who had been with St. Agnes By the Sea. He was
assisted by the Rev. Daniel Powers.
St Agnes By The Sea will be
retained as a chapel for the Franciscan Nuns who have the convent
adjacent.
St. Edmond's was built by
the John Joyce contracting firm of Wilmington. Gleason &
Mulrooney of Philadelphia were the architects.
Abstracr by Harrison Howeth
2017, Wilmington morning News, and Baltimore Sun, newspaper articles.
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