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Immanuel Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church, Kimballton Iowa

Immanuel Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church, Kimballton Iowa

When the Danish Lutheran Church split into two opposing factions in 1894, those that followed the teachings of Bishop N. F. S. Grundtvig remained with the Danish Church, while those following the pietistic beliefs of Inner Mission Society left to establish a separate church, known commonly after 1896 as the United Church. In the Shelby/Audubon County area, the United Church congregations retained possession of the earlier church buildings in Elk Horn and at Bethany Church in Sharon Township; however, some of their members left to organize a Grundtvigian congregation in Kimballton. Left without a church building and lacking, for a time, the resources to build a proper church, this congregation first met in various homes in the community or outdoors when

Middlefork Methodist Episcopal Church, Redding Iowa

Middlefork Methodist Episcopal Church, Redding Iowa

Middlefork Methodist Episcopal Church is representative of a once-common class of rural religious buildings. In the county, it is the sole surviving and absolutely unchanged example of its building type, one that once numbered forty in Ringgold County alone. One of three active rural churches in the county, Middlefork alone boasts an unaltered plan, and a number of distinctive structural and decorative features. The single-story frame church, stands a scant one and a half miles north of the Missouri state line, in southwest Ringgold County. Middlefork Church is the last active and well-preserved example of a Nineteenth Century frame church. The church was founded following a six week long revival during the spring of 1886. Two area schoolhouses, at Clipper and

First Lutheran Church - Mt. Pisgah Lutheran Church, Indianapolis Indiana

First Lutheran Church - Mt. Pisgah Lutheran Church, Indianapolis Indiana

Built as Mount Pisgah Lutheran Church, First Lutheran Church of Indianapolis was significant primarily for architectural reasons. The two sections of the building represent Gothic and Romanesque Revival styles of architecture. The pointed-arched windows, gable ends, and corner buttresses indicate the Gothic Revival influence in the chapel. The round-arched windows, recessed panels, arched transoms, and corbel table reveal the Romanesque design used in the main sanctuary. The First Lutheran Church is especially notable in that it combines in one building the two architectural styles that late nineteenth-century Americans most often associated with religious structures. The structure was built in two parts. Its chapel was constructed in 1875 and was used as the primary worship space until a sanctuary was completed in

St. Mary of the Angels Motherhouse Complex, Williamsville New York

St. Mary of the Angels Motherhouse Complex, Williamsville New York

The St. Mary of the Angels Motherhouse Complex was built in 1928 as an expansion of the Amherst headquarters of the Sisters of St. Francis, the main building was designed explicitly for a religious community, functioning as a combined convent, motherhouse, teaching facility, and home for the poor and elderly. The Collegiate Gothic style institutional building complex was designed by Dietel and Wade, a Buffalo architectural firm well known for Buffalo City Hall and other prominent early 20^th Century civic and religious structures. The Motherhouse Complex continued to serve most of its original functions from the time of construction through 1998, and in its plan, design, materials and architectural embellishment, the complex illustrates the functioning of a self-sufficient early 20^th century

Universalist Church, Mitchellville Iowa

Universalist Church, Mitchellville Iowa

The Universalist Church at Mitchellville, completed and first occupied circa 1868, is an outstanding example of a early church design based on examples found in small New England towns. It is likely very similar to the ones found in the builder's hometown. The building is the oldest documented in the city. Latter-day histories sometimes date the construction of the church to 1862. However, the transom above the church entrance depicts the date 1868. The 1862 date is most unlikely. Not only did little construction occur in Iowa during the Civil War; the site of the church had not yet been platted. (Perhaps this date refers to another event in the congregation's history.) The 1868-year is more likely correct. Mitchellville was platted

Unitarian Church of the Messiah, St. Louis Missouri

Unitarian Church of the Messiah, St. Louis Missouri

The Church of the Messiah was the only extant building directly intertwined with the life and work of William Greenleaf Eliot (1811-1887). Eliot himself gained national prominence both as an activist urging a wide range of social reforms and as the founder of a precedent-setting institution of higher education, Washington University. His small St. Louis congregation grew from the first Unitarian outpost west of the Mississippi River to a prosperous and altruistic force responsible for the founding of nationally significant cultural, educational and philanthropic institutions. It was the only remaining church located outside New England by the Boston firm of Peabody & Stearns. Shortly after graduation from Harvard Divinity School in 1834, William Greenleaf Eliot, son of a prominent Massachusetts family,

Church of the Messiah, St. Louis Missouri

Church of the Messiah, St. Louis Missouri

The Church of the Messiah Unitarian, 5261 Enright, St. Louis, Missouri, was constructed in 1907 to designs of John Lawrence Mauran. The small Gothic Revival-style church is one of St. Louis's outstanding examples of a church design that achieves architectural excellence on a modest budget, and one that is distinctly set apart from other churches in St. Louis by an extraordinary group of stained glass memorial windows manufactured in 1879 by the London studio of designer Daniel Cottier (1838-1891), an internationally renowned artist. In 1906, these windows were removed from the Unitarians' former church building (erected 1879-80; demolished, 1987) and reinstalled as the principal architectural embellishment in Mauran's new church where the architect created an architectural setting, blending Gothic motifs and

Christmas Tree Lane, Altadena California

Christmas Tree Lane, Altadena California

Christmas Tree Lane is the most prominently recognized landscape feature in Altadena. The six block double row of one-hundred-year-old Deodar Cedar trees have been an important part of the history of the community since first being planted in 1885 by Altadena's founders, Frederick J. and John P. Woodbury, as part of their ranch. The trees have attained significance because of their association with an important community event. A Christmas Tree lighting ceremony was started in 1920 as a community project and has become a major event for Altadena and the surrounding San Gabriel Valley region attracting hundreds of thousands of people from throughout Southern California and beyond. The trees were started as seedlings in 1883 by Frederick J. Woodbury. Captain Woodbury,

Cathedral of All Saints, Albany New York

Cathedral of All Saints, Albany New York

The most ambitious plan for an Episcopal cathedral of its day, the unfinished century-and-a-half-old Cathedral of All Saints was nurtured throughout the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries by Albany's great families, the Van Rensselaers, Schuylers, Pruyns, and Cornings, and represents the advent of the successful career of architect, Robert Gibson, and the final chapter in the fruitful life of master stone carver, Louis J. Hinton. Beginning with the influence of the Oxford Movement in Great Britain, a new interest in absorbing Catholic ideals and rituals permeated the Episcopalian Church in the mid-19^th century America. One outgrowth of this theological movement was the conviction that American dioceses were too large, and consequently the Bishop was often a combination of an administrator

Christ Church, Oyster Bay New York

Christ Church, Oyster Bay New York

Christ Church is of one of Oyster Bay's earliest congregations. Founded in 1705, the Anglican congregation originally met in a combination town hall and church building. Two new churches were built on the same foundation over time, in 1750 and 1844, and a churchyard was established next to it. A portion of the original eighteenth-century Burying Ground is located on the south side of the current building; it contains the graves of several early parishioners and features representative examples of eighteenth-century funerary art. The 1750 building had become so decayed by the early nineteenth century that the congregation began using the nearby Oyster Bay Academy building as a worship space. The academy, founded in 1802, was one of the community's earliest

Salem United Methodist Church - Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church, New York New York

Salem United Methodist Church - Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church, New York New York

Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church, now Salem United Methodist Church, is associated with two of Harlem's largest Methodist congregations and the changing character of the population of the neighborhood. After the residential development of Harlem into an upper-middle-class neighborhood in the late nineteenth century, residents funded the construction of magnificent Protestant church buildings. Calvary Methodist Episcopal, one of the fastest-growing congregations in the new neighborhood, built the largest church in the city in two building campaigns, beginning in 1887 and expanding in 1890. The purchase of the church from its original white, Methodist Episcopal congregation by an African-American Methodist Episcopal congregation in 1924 illustrates the social transformation that took place in Harlem in the early decades of the twentieth century. Salem United

All Saints' Church, Boston Massachusetts

All Saints' Church, Boston Massachusetts

All Saints' Parish originated as a mission, which began in 1867 for mill workers in the Dorchester Lower Mills area. After building its first church, a wood frame building in Dorchester Avenue in 1871, the congregation formally organized as a parish in 1874. Largely because of the beneficence of Colonel Oliver Peabody, a prominent Unitarian and partner in the investment banking firm of Kidder & Peabody (who adopted the parish in 1879 after stopping in for a Sunday service when a snowstorm impeded his passage into Boston from his residence in Milton) the parish undertook the building of a larger church in 1890. Bertram Goodhue at this time was Cram's draftsman and later became his partner. Apparently, because of the beauty

The Washington National Cathedral, Washington, DC

The Washington National Cathedral, Washington, DC

The Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul and Close at Mount Saint Alban, a Protestant Episcopal cathedral, known as the National Cathedral or the Washington Cathedral, has a distinct ecumenical character as it functions as the national church called for in the 1792 Plan of the Federal City. The stone, English Neo-Gothic style building begun in 1907 and completed in 1982 has a medieval structural system with masonry load-bearing walls and flying buttresses. However, modern construction methods and interior systems are employed, resulting in a unique combination of old and new. The richly decorated cathedral is located in an informally planned and landscaped 57-acre Close which also contains auxiliary buildings housing the educational institutions of the Cathedral Foundation. This

Lowney Chocolate Factory, Mansfield Massachusetts

Lowney Chocolate Factory, Mansfield Massachusetts

With the arrival of the railroad in 1835, Mansfield began to grow steadily, with increased commercial and industrial development. During the late 19^th Century, the town experienced a manufacturing boom due to its rail access, natural resources, and the availability of inexpensive land. These factors, along with a dedicated effort by the Mansfield Board of Trade, enticed Walter M. Lowney to locate his chocolate factory there. Unlike other new Mansfield industries, which primarily manufactured consumer, industrial, or construction products, the Lowney Chocolate Factory produced perishable goods. The factory was supported by its own adjacent dairy farm and nearby employee housing. For more than 100 years, the factory was a center of employment for residents of Mansfield. Cocoa beans were imported from

Calvary Evangelical Lutheran Church, Louisville Kentucky

Calvary Evangelical Lutheran Church, Louisville Kentucky

The Calvary Evangelical Church dates back to 1919. Reverend Clayton A. Robertson was the head of the church during that time. In 1941, he is listed in the Directory of Churches, Missions, and Religious Institutions of Tennessee as the head of the Kentucky-Tennessee Synod, and living at the parsonage address. He served the church through 1963 when on July 14^th, 1963 the Courier-Journal reported that Rev. Richard W. Howard was to be installed as the new Reverend. In 1919 The Lutheran Men's League of Louisville presented Calvary with a lot at Bardstown Road and Roanoke Ave., and in 1919 the laymen and pastors of the city erected a frame chapel there in just one day. (Encyclopedia of Louisville, p 579). This

St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church, Watervliet New York

St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church, Watervliet New York

St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church is a Ukrainian-inspired religious design in Albany County, New York. Designed by the German-born architect Bernhardt Noack (1850- 1908), the building features traditional Ukrainian religious design vocabulary including round-arched fenestration and a proliferation of onion domes, features derived from Eastern European precedents. Begun in 1906 and completed two years later, St. Nicholas has served the local Ukrainian Catholic population for nearly one hundred years and remains one of Watervliet's most distinctive ecclesiastical architectural statements. The church is likewise significant for its cultural associations with the settlement of the Cohoes-Troy-Watervliet area by large numbers of Ukrainian immigrants during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Since its completion, St. Nicholas has served continuously as a worship center

Little Crow Milling Company Factory, Warsaw Indiana

Little Crow Milling Company Factory, Warsaw Indiana

Construction was completed on the original building of the Little Crow Milling Company Factory in 1924. The Little Crow Milling Company continued to expand its line of specialty food products through the 1970s and the late 1980s, with Instant Coco Wheats being the last new product introduced. The last physical expansion of the Little Crow Milling Company Factory, the large metal-clad rear addition to the south block, was constructed in 1977 specifically to serve as additional storage and packaging space for the company's two new products, Little Crow Popcorn Oil and Hip-O-Lite Marshmallow Creme. Although no building permits or company records have been identified that show exactly when this addition was completed, a newspaper clipping from 1978 references the recent additions

St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Albany New York

St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Albany New York

Begun in 1859, St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Albany, New York, was designed by noted architect Richard Upjohn and his son, Richard M. Upjohn. Constructed in French Gothic style, the church is noted for its decorative stone tower, which rises to a height of 180 feet. Restored, the church has changed little in appearance since 1876. The history of St. Peter's Church reaches back to 1704 when Queen Anne established the Chapel of the Onondagas to spread missionary activity among the Indians. In 1715 a church building was erected, making it one of the first Anglican churches north of New York City. This building was replaced in 1803 by a new church designed by architect Phillip Hooker, located at Lodge and

Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Church Complex, Buffalo New York

Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Church Complex, Buffalo New York

The Corpus Christi Church complex of buildings in Buffalo, New York, is a Roman Catholic urban parish created to serve the needs of a Polish-American immigrant neighborhood during the first half of the twentieth century. Consisting of a church, rectory, and monastery, convent, two social halls and school (now demolished), the parish buildings were erected by the Franciscan Order and designed by the Buffalo architectural firm of Schmill & Gould and the successor firms carried on by Karl G. Schmill, Jr., after his father's death in 1914. Corpus Christi is one of several large ecclesiastical complexes that architecturally dominate this neighborhood of modest working class residences on the East Side of Buffalo. Today the area has lost most of its former

American Radiator Company Factory Complex, Buffalo New York

American Radiator Company Factory Complex, Buffalo New York

The American Radiator Company Factory Complex was an important manufacturing and research facility for the largest producer of radiators in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. American Radiator not only used the facility to manufacture radiators, but the Institute of Thermal Research, one part of the complex, helped develop and market products and aided in the advancement of the field of steam heating. Emerging ideas in the post-Civil War era regarding hygiene and wellness advocated for well-heated and ventilated homes, offices, and schools, and the development of steam-heating technology was part of the movement towards better health and more cost-effective and safer alternatives to coal heating systems. The Institute of Thermal Research was consulted by academic and

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