Allen Souza and Mary Lynn Stevens sell Bicentennial Advent calendars during church and rectory tours given by St. Peter’s parishioners for the Capitol Hill Restoration Society’s 65th Annual House and Garden Tour on May 8. About 140 visitors learned  about the architecture of St. Peter’s three churches and three rectories,  as well as their many decorative elements.

Ed Berna describes the 1901 rectory’s first and second parlors, with their artifacts from Daniel Carroll’s Duddington Manor

Kathy Berna tells visitors about the rectory dining room.

Jerry Conlon points out the frieze with a quote from Matthew’s Gospel that runs around the nave of the church.

Nancy Hartnagel, at right, talks about the 1896 Jubilee Altar, part of the patrimony from St. Peter’s second church.