Article May 10, 1900 Issue

Evanston Christian Scientists Buy Property

Chicago Post

Members of First Church of Christ, Scientist, have bought the lot and house on the southwest corner of Grove Street and Chicago Avenue for $16,250. This is the site on which the library board had an option. Recently the option ran out and the Scientists offered the cash and now are in possession of the property. C. E. Ware, a prominent member from South Evanston, furnished the necessary money, but the church will pay it back before it makes use of it. The house standing on the lot is to be remodeled and made into an assembly hall seating five hundred people. This is not to be the church, for in a few years a pretty edifice will be built. Plans are being drawn for remodeling, and the hall will probably be ready for meetings next September. The lot has a hundred feet frontage on Chicago Avenue and is over two hundred feet in depth.

There are at present over one hundred members of the First Church of Christ, but the congregation numbers on an average two hundred and fifty persons. The number is constantly increasing, so that larger quarters have been engaged three or four times. The latest move was made because the rooms in the Y. M. C. A. Building are too small to accommodate the Christian Scientists.

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