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There has been an Episcopal Church on this corner since 1857, and the
present sanctuary was completed in 1893. Confederate president Jefferson
Davis worshipped at St. Peter's in April, 1865, when he and the other
members of the Confederate Cabinet were fleeing from the Yankees. A
window in the church contains the Confederate Seal. Jane Smedberg
Wilkes, the founder of St. Peter's Hospital, was a member. There is a
memorial window for her in the church. Every Sunday morning John and
Gussie Newcomb would walk from their big home on West Ninth Street on
their way to the eleven o'clock service. Gussie probably always wore
fancy hats. Edwin and Elizabeth Clarkson, founders of Wing Haven, the
locally famous bird sanctuary and garden in Myers Park, belonged to this
congregation. St. Peter's Episcopal Church has consistently reached to
the broader community, including feeding the homeless in recent years.
Continue south on Tryon Street and stop in front of the tan-colored,
brick church in the middle of the block.
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