St. Paul's by-the-Sea Episcopal Church

The take

A stone-and-shingle Episcopal parish on Baltimore Ave, four blocks off the boards and about two centuries of noise away from them. It is on the National Register, which is the kind of fact that tells you nothing about standing in the doorway on a Sunday morning while the town wakes up behind you. Service times are the one thing we could not confirm — the parish publishes them on its own noticeboard and we have not read them, so the board by the door is the only thing to plan a service around.