{"id":4022,"date":"2012-03-05T15:52:14","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T15:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalheritage.org\/?p=4022"},"modified":"2023-06-20T13:20:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T13:20:53","slug":"all-souls-episcopal-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/2012\/03\/05\/all-souls-episcopal-church\/","title":{"rendered":"All Souls Episcopal Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4169\" title=\"AllSoulsChurch\" src=\"http:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/AllSoulsChurch-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/AllSoulsChurch-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/AllSoulsChurch-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/AllSoulsChurch-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/AllSoulsChurch-1080x810.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">George Vanderbilt established All Souls Episcopal Church in 1896 to serve the workers on his Biltmore Estate near Asheville.\u00a0 The church was the centerpiece of the village he constructed to house his workers, a community known as Biltmore Village.\u00a0 Richard Morris Hunt, the Biltmore House architect, designed the cross-shaped church and its adjoining parish hall in a transitional Romanesque Gothic style, reminiscent of medieval abbeys.\u00a0 All Souls Church pursued an active social mission.\u00a0 It sponsored a school for mountain children and later one for children with special needs, and it supported the establishment of a nearby hospital. In the late 1990s, the diocese of Western North Carolina selected All Souls to serve as it\u2019s cathedral, and remains the only cathedral in the region.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Multimedia:<\/h3>\n<h2>Below is the Digital Heritage Moment as broadcast on the radio:<\/h2>\n[audio:http:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/All-Souls60Mx.mp3|titles=All Souls60Mx]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Vanderbilt established All Souls Episcopal Church in 1896 to serve the workers on his Biltmore Estate near Asheville.\u00a0 The church was the centerpiece of the village he constructed to house his workers, a community known as Biltmore Village.\u00a0 Richard Morris Hunt, the Biltmore House architect, designed the cross-shaped church and its adjoining parish hall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[52,79,80,189,245,460],"class_list":["post-4022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-institutions","tag-asheville","tag-biltmore-house","tag-biltmore-village","tag-episcopal-church","tag-george-vanderbilt","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8756,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022\/revisions\/8756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}