St. Thomas Episcopal Church Parsonage House
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The St. Thomas Parsonage, which is associated with the St. Thomas Episcopal Church, still stands beside the church at 212 North Main St, Glassboro, NJ 08028. The map coordinates are 39.707567, -75.110577.
In 2014, a tree fell on the Parsonage during a storm, destroying a part of the upper floor. The building has since been repaired, and the porch removed. The church and accompanying parsonage is one of the oldest sanctuaries in the area and is on the National Register of Historic Sites in the Library of Congress.
According to the Church's website, "St. Thomas’ Church in Glassboro was a new congregation formed in the early years of the new Protestant Episcopal Church of America. It was formed sometime during the eleven years between the first religious services conducted by Swedish Lutheran Pastor Collin in 1780 and the construction of the first house of worship in Glassboro in 1791...The first church building was built in 1791 and was located on North Main Street about two blocks north of the present location of St. Thomas’ Church buildings. The original building was a plain, log cabin with one un-plastered room. It included a window, and a bell hung in a tree to call the townspeople to worship. It was the earliest house of worship in Glassboro and the structure was also used as a schoolhouse.
The current Victorian rectory was built during the tenure of the Rev. Henry M.G. Huff, who was rector for six years from 1887 – 1893."
The Church's original cemetery located at the coordinates 39.711680, -75.111300 contains the graves of many of the founding members of the church and of Glassboro.
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