Article April 17, 1909 Issue

AMONG THE CHURCHES

The plans for the building to be erected by First Church of Christ, Scientist, on the half block on Everett street between Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets, were prepared by S. S. Beman of Chicago, and show a building of the classic style of architecture, which differs from that of any other building in the city. The basement for the church, which was finished last year, covers an area of eighty-two by one hundred and fifty-four feet and will be used for Sunday School purposes.

On the first floor of the building there will be three double and two single entrances from Everett street leading to the vestibule, which enters into the foyer. This foyer is twenty feet wide at the narrowest part and then spreads out over the full width of the building. On the next floor will be the auditorium, which covers an area of sixty-five by one hundred and fifty feet and will undoubtedly have the largest seating capacity of any church building in the city. This auditorium will be inclined toward the pulpit and ample room will be left for aisles. Fifteen hundred people can be comfortably accommodated with seats. There will be no galleries. The pews are to be of hard wood and the interior finish of the church is to be plain and massive, no carved work or extensive decorations being used. The dome arising over the central part of the building will probably be the largest in the city, measuring fifty-two feet across the interior. In the center of the dome will be a skylight, with a "sunburst" in the ceiling. The building is to be of brick, with outside facing of oolitic limestone furnished by the quarry at Salt Lake City, Utah.

General construction work will start as soon as the stone commences to arrive, and it is the expectation to have the building completed within fifteen months. The estimated cost is $100,000.—Daily Abstract.

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