Talk:St. Peter's Church (Queenstown, Maryland)

Catholic?
The external link says it was originally a Roman Catholic congregation founded in 1631. That's quite shocking, especially to New Englanders and others who assumed America was thoroughly Protestant until the late 19th Century. I'd say it deserves inclusion in the article, yes? Also, is it an active parish church today still? 24.91.244.221 (talk) 02:41, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Working on this. Catholics were oppressed and this was among the first in the English colonies. Parish is still active. TwoScars (talk) 17:21, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
 * The Province of Maryland was founded by the Catholic Calvert family as a Catholic refuge.  Acroterion   (talk)   17:24, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

Review
A few items:
 * Route 50 is obviously a thing to discuss, but perhaps not in as much depth in terms of destinations and routes. The Delmarva Peninsula discussion could be more succinct, doing most of the work with the internal link. What I'd really like to see is a discussion of the extreme proximity of the highway to the church and how that's affected the property, but I haven't found much.
 * I think the 'Beginning of Maryland' section could be more concise. But I like the discussion in 'Early Catholic communities on Maryland's Eastern Shore.'
 * The discussion of the architecture is well-done (I'm an architect, so I'm picky). Many of the parenthetical statements could be redone or done away with - the parenthetical definition of cruciform is awkward and unnecessary, especially since we have an article to link to.
 * The NRHP nomination is a valuable reference, but it's from 1980, when NRHP noms were a bit sketchy and sometimes amateurish - the nomination would be much more thorough nowadays. The nom was done by Orlando Ridout himself, the MHT executive director, so the information is good, but it's a bit laconic.
 * I go past the church on a regular basis and have meant to get better photography, but it faces east, and I'm rarely there in the morning. The phone lines are awkward, and you can't pull over on 50, so it's something of a time commitment to get really good images. If you have some good images, I can do perspective correction and general cleanup if you need it.  Acroterion   (talk)   16:36, 4 August 2019 (UTC)