We have been awarded a grant from the New Jersey Historic Trust

Church Of Our Saviour

Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund

Capital Preservation Grant, Level II

Grant Award: $750,000 (2008)

Grant Recipient: Camden Shipyard and Maritime Museum

County: Camden

Municipality: Camden

The Church of Our Saviour is noted in the National Register nomination as “an excellent example of small-scale Gothic architecture designed by noted Philadelphia architect George W. Hewitt in 1880.”  The church campus includes a 1892 parish hall and 1912 rectory. The church historically served a congregation linked to the nearby shipbuilding and maritime industries. The buildings fell into a deteriorated condition after the Episcopal Diocese abandoned the buildings. The applicant and a local community development organization purchased the complex in 2007. 

The Trust grant will help fund structural stabilization, exterior restoration, and interior rehabilitation of the former church and parish hall for use as a maritime museum and community space.