A history of Saint Peter's church in the city of Albany : with an introduction and description of the present edifice and its memorials . hat some very liberal offerings had been made forrebuilding, that the church was comparatively unsafe,that the ground upon which it stood was settling, andthat it was only a matter of time when the church couldno longer be used for public worship. The vestry,after due consideration, unanimously resolved, in con-sideration of the unsound condition of the presentchurch edifice, it will probably be indispensably neces-sary, at no distant day, that it should be
A history of Saint Peter's church in the city of Albany : with an introduction and description of the present edifice and its memorials . hat some very liberal offerings had been made forrebuilding, that the church was comparatively unsafe,that the ground upon which it stood was settling, andthat it was only a matter of time when the church couldno longer be used for public worship. The vestry,after due consideration, unanimously resolved, in con-sideration of the unsound condition of the presentchurch edifice, it will probably be indispensably neces-sary, at no distant day, that it should be taken downand rebuilt, and appointed a committee to consist ofthe rector, Mr. Taylor, Mr. Plumb and Mr. Meads toascertain whether the requisite funds can be procuredfor the rebuilding of the parish church edifice. Asubscription was commenced, and the amount securedso encouraging, that on May 23, 1857, the rectorinformed the vestry that he with several other mem-bers of the vestry, had recently visited New York andexamined a number of the churches in that city and The Rev. Thomas Clapp Pitkin, D. D. Ri-ctor of St. Piters, i8ji6-/S62. The Building of the Third St. Peters 311 Brooklyn, with the view of obtaining proper informa-tion in reference to the rebuilding of our own churchedifice—that after making such examination and allproper inquiries, they had, with the view of aiding thevestry in its action, requested Mr. Richard Upjohn ofNew York, who is well known as an eminent churcharchitect, to prepare a suitable plan for a church to besubmitted to the consideration of the vestry, and thatMr. Upjohn was now engaged in the preparationthereof; that the examination which had been madeby the architect, rendered it highly probable that itmight be found desirable to extend the new church edi-fice so far north as to require the removal of the presentrectory; that in view of such a contingency GilbertL. Wilson, Esq., had very generously offered to giveto the church a valuable and suitab
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