St Paul's Episcopal Church

Besides the busy downtown area of Port Townsend there is another shopping/business district on the bluff known as the Uptown district of this city. St. Paul's Episcopal church is located here and is a short distance from the heart of downtown.

Construction began in 1862 and took three years to complete. St. Paul's was the third Episcopal congregation in the state of Washington and the first to build its own building, which makes St. Paul's the oldest Episcopal church building in continuous use in the state.

In 1882, the congregation, finding its church in the path of an impending street regrade, placed it on rollers and moved it to the present location and is across the street from the historic Bell Tower.