Sketch of the Union Baptist Church by S. Jerome Hoxie. View looking up Baptist Hill (West Main Street) towards the Union Baptist Church from Bank Square in Mystic, between 1924-1931. The original Mystic River National Bank building can be seen on the right and the road leading up Baptist Hill has already been graded and paved. Note the trees on West Main Street and the original steeple of the Union Baptist Church which were lost in the 1938 Hurricane.
Stephen Jerome Hoxie was born in Phenix, RI on September 24, 1895 and studied at the East Greenwich Academy and the Rhode Island School of Design. He was a prolific artist (producing 82 works for the WPA), operated "Hoxie's Paint Shop" in Mystic and ran the Hoxie School of Art in Noank. He was also a member of the Mystic Art Association, an organizer of the Mystic Outdoor Art Festival and active in the Mystic Marine Historical Association (Mystic Seaport Museum). The S. Jerome Hoxie scenic highway overlook on I-95 in Mystic was named in his honor in 1959. He is buried at Elm Grove Cemetery.
Artwork Details
Medium
Paper
Subject Person or Organization
Union Baptist Church
Subject Place
Location
Mystic
Collection
Carol Kimball Collection
Acquisition
Accession
2026.040
Source or Donor
Carol Kimball
Acquisition Method
Transfer
Made/Created
Artist
Hoxie, S. Jerome
Date made
1924 - 1931
Inscription/Signature/Marks
Type
Signature
Transcription
S. Jerome Hoxie
Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Tertiary Object Term
Engraving
Nomenclature Secondary Object Term
Print, Intaglio
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
Print
Nomenclature Sub-Class
Graphic Documents
Nomenclature Class
Documentary Objects
Nomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication Objects
Provenance
Notes
Part of a collection of records collected by Carol Kimball during her tenure as the Town of Groton Historian; given to the Groton Historical Society following her death; stored for several years at the Avery Copp Museum; donated to the Groton Public Library 2026
