Habitual sleuthing on eBay brought a bit of luck some weeks ago. The real photo but blurry image of a church at Mantoloking, New Jersey caught my eye.
Finding the parish website of St. Simon-by-the-Sea was easy enough but so much more rewarding: the church in the postcard was an enlargement/extension of the initial building campaign, constructed in 1888 and having a profile so much like St. Peter's church, Washington, NJ that I was speechless. I've been working on Mantoloking intensely and am ever more convinced that the Episcopal church there is by WHW.
The bishop's annual report for 1888 mentions three churches along the Jersey shore that were constructed that season: Key East (Lavallette), Bay Head and Mantoloking. St. Simon is clearly a sibling for the church at Washington, but I also begin to wonder if it was part of a "package deal" for Wood.
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