St. John's Episcopal Church, Bayonne, NJ

Diocesan annual reports are the primary source for linking Wood with his many Episcopal church commissions. Google.books has revolutionized my life by making a search of those volumes so easy. Case in point, Wood's commission for a church in Bayonne, New Jersey.

St. John's Mission emerged about 1880 to serve one of the scattered New Jersey communities along the Hudson. By 1887 a site had been chosen; by the next year, purchased. Whether Wood competed for this modest commission is unknown. His involvement as architect was noted in 1890, though I can't confirm the building's completion, consecration, or for that matter it's closing and the parish's demise. It won't surprise me to find that the building was wood, rather than masonry.

It's interesting that three parishes served Bayonne and that one of them--Trinity-- had a building designed by Stent & Sargent. E.J.N. Stent was well known for his interior decorative schemes, contributing one to the rehabilitation of Upjohn's small church at Copake Falls.