Kate Robinson Apr 22, 2021 The original Sippican Seminary. The building was later remodeled and the top floor removed when it became St. Gabriel’s Episcopal Church. Images courtesy: Judith Rosbe Admiral Andrew Harwood founded St. Gabriel’s church after praying to the archangel Gabriel during a storm at sea. A postcard from around 1890 showing the remodeled St. Gabriel’s Chapel. Photographers and journalists outside St. Gabriel’s for the 1899 wedding of artist Cecil Clark to journalist Richard Harding Davis. Here, the famous couple is leaving the church. The wedding party included actor Ethel Barrymore as maid of honor (center left), next to bride Cecil Clark Davis (center right).