Second_Presbyterian_Church_(St._Louis,_Missouri)
Second Presbyterian Church (St. Louis, Missouri)
Historic church in Missouri, United States
Second Presbyterian Church is a historic church at 4501 Westminster Place in St. Louis, Missouri.
Second Presbyterian Church | |
Location | 4501 Westminster Pl., St. Louis, Missouri |
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Coordinates | 38°38′51″N 90°15′20″W |
Area | 9.9 acres (4.0 ha) |
Built | 1896 (1896) |
Architect | Multiple |
Architectural style | Romanesque architecture, Richardsonian Romanesque |
NRHP reference No. | 75002140[1] |
Added to NRHP | September 11, 1975 |
The congregation was founded in 1838 by the Old School Presbytery of St. Louis.[2] It has had three buildings. Its first building, designed in the Greek Revival architectural style and completed in 1840, was located at Fifth (Broadway) and Walnut Streets.[3] Thirty years later, in 1870, a second church building was erected on Lucas Place at Seventeenth Street.[3]
The third and current building was completed in 1896.[2] It was designed by German-born architect Theodore C. Link.[2] The adjacent education building was completed in 1931.[2]
A large four-manual pipe organ by the Schantz Organ Company was installed in 1965. The organ's tonal design was provided by the church's minister of music Dr. Charles H. Heaton.[4]
The church's Compton Lounge is named after Arthur Compton, who served as an elder in the church.
It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1975.[1]
- "History and Architecture". Second Presbyterian Church. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
- "Four-Manual Schantz to St. Louis Church" (PDF). The Diapason. 55 (3): 1. February 1964.
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