Article January 9, 1904 Issue

Buy St. Paul's Church, Washington, D. C.

Washington (D. C.) Daily Post

The Foundry M. E. Church has sold to First Church of Christ, Scientist, the old St. Paul's Church building soon to be vacated by the United Foundry and St. Paul's Methodist Churches, when they move into the new Foundry edifice on Sixteenth Street. The Christian Scientists expect to move into their first church edifice in the district early in February, giving up the hall which they now occupy in the Scottish Rite Building on G Street.

The price paid by the Christian Scientists for their new church home was not all in cash and it is not therefore possible to state it in exact figures, but it is estimated to be about $40,000. A cash payment was made and the society also gave to the Methodists the valuable lots owned by the society on the corner of Erie and Ontario Streets, Washington Heights, on which it was intended to erect a new Christian Science edifice.

The sale of the building is mutually very satisfactory. The Foundry Church people have been very anxious to sell since they determined to build their magnificent new church on Sixteenth Street, and as church property is always harder to sell than good residence property or office buildings, there has been some misgiving as to whether the value would be realized. It was felt that only a church would probably be willing to get anything like the value of the property out of its use.

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