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Please join Mandarin Museum & Historical Society for our February Third Thursday Lecture featuring author Jonathan Rich as he presents "Spires in the Sun: The Carpenter Gothic Episcopal Churches of Florida." Date: Thursday, February 20, 2025
Time: Refreshments at 6:30 pm, Presentation at 7:00 pm
Location: Mandarin Community Club, 12447 Mandarin Rd.
Admission: Free
Author Jonathan Rich will present on his recent book, "Spires in the Sun: The Carpenter Gothic Episcopal Churches of Florida," featuring over 500 pages of stories of the oldest surviving wood-frame Episcopal churches in Florida. “Built in the 1800s when Florida was still the nation’s raw southeastern frontier, these churches breathed the romantic sensibilities of England’s stone parish churches into a new medium: wood. Together with their Carpenter Gothic counterparts elsewhere on the nation’s frontiers, they elevated the American wooden church to new heights of historicity, imagination, and beauty,” says Rich. Mandarin's own Episcopal Church of Our Saviour is included as are other examples in Northeast Florida.
In 2024, "Spires in the Sun" was awarded the Charlton Tebeau Award for a general-interest book on a Florida history topic by the Florida Historical Society.
Signed copies of Spires in the Sun will be available for purchase at the lecture.
This Third Thursday Lecture is presented by the Mandarin Museum & Historical Society in partnership with and held at the Mandarin Community Club, located at 12447 Mandarin Road.
Special thanks to St. John’s Cathedral Bookstore & Gift Shop and the Episcopal Diocese of Florida.
And thank you to our generous sponsor, Endless Summer Roofing Co., for making our Spring 2025 Third Thursday Lecture Series possible.
Mandarin Museum is supported, in part, through a grant from the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville and the City of Jacksonville.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
12447 Mandarin Rd, Jacksonville, FL 32223-1816, United States, 12447 Mandarin Rd, Jacksonville, FL 32223-1816, United States,Jacksonville, Florida, Orange Park
