From the Newport Bicentennial Celebration Booklet:
(This excert was also included in the Church of the Epiphany Centennial Anniversary Celebration, January 7, 2007)
"The Church of the Epiphany held its first service on the Feast of the Epiphany, being Sunday, in the year 1907 in the Court Room on Main Street. Some two years later land was purchased on Cheney Street from the Wair family and in June 1910 the church was dedicated by the Rt. Rev. Edward M. Parker, Bishop of New Hampshire. For many years the church remained in missionary status in the Diocese. In 1950 under the leadership of the Rev. Harold G. Martin, plans were laid for the building (or digging) of an Undercroft, which proved to be a project widely supported by the whole community.
In 1953, the Rev Stanrod T. Carmichael was appointed to serve as the vicar of the congregation, which at this time was showing many signs of newness of life. In 1956, when the Diocesan Convention was held in Newport, the church was admitted to the diocese as a parish. In 1957 the congregation purchased for a second time the porperty facing the Common, renovating the first floor for church school pruposes and the second floor as the rectory. In February, 1958 the Rev, Samuel N. McCain Jr. accepted the call as rector."
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