The graceful, monumental Renaissance Revival-style St. Columba's Church was designed by architect Charles Edwards of Paterson and constructed in 1897 for a prospering Irish-American parish in Newark's Lincoln Park neighborhood. The church and its attached rectory comprise an entire city block and serve as an important architectural landmark, especially because of the prominent campanile (tower) and unique program of opalescent art glass windows. The parish is also a center of vital social service programs for its surrounding low-income neighborhood.

The Trust grant will fund structural repairs to the church roof trusses, the exterior restoration of roofs and masonry, and the preservation of window frames. A 1992 grant from the Historic Preservation Bond Program funded emergency roof stabilization.

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