Background
Isaac Pursell was born in 1853 at Trenton, New Jersey, United States.
Isaac Pursell was born in 1853 at Trenton, New Jersey, United States.
The youth attended public schools and received an architectural training in the Philadelphia office of the late Samuel Sloan.
In practice for himself in subsequent years, Mr. Pursell was most successful in designing churches, and during the late nineteenth century prepared plans tor a number of well-known ecclesiastical buildings in Philadelphia. Notable exampies of these were the Christ Reformed Church at Chester and 43rd Street; St. Matthews Lutheran; St. Paul's Reformed Episcopal; the Calvary Methodist in, Germantown 1892; St. Paul's Presbyterian; Moravian Church of the Holy Trinity, 1879; Bethany Tabernacle, and Christ Protestant Episcopal. Mr. Pursell also designed churches in other cities, including the Second Presbyterian Church in Knoxville, Tenn., a number of hospitals in New Jersey and at Haddonfleld, N. J., the first Presbyterian Church, one of his late works.
Second Presbyterian Church in Knoxville, Tenn
Moravian Church of the Holy Trinity
1879