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First Unitarian Church (Des Moines, Iowa)
First Unitarian Church may refer to: * First Unitarian Church (Berkeley, California), listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) * First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California *First Unitarian Church of Oakland, Oakland, California, NRHP-listed *First Unitarian Church of San Jose, San Jose, California, NRHP-listed *First Unitarian Church of Honolulu, Honolulu, Hawaii * First Unitarian Church of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois *First Unitarian Church of Hobart, Hobart, Indiana, NRHP-listed * First Unitarian Church (Des Moines, Iowa), one of the notable Unitarian churches * First Unitarian Church (Iowa City, Iowa), NRHP-listed *First Unitarian Church (Baltimore, Maryland), NRHP-listed * First Unitarian Church (Peabody, Massachusetts), NRHP-listed *First Unitarian Church (Somerville, Massachusetts), NRHP-listed *First Unitarian Church (Stoneham, Massachusetts), NRHP-listed * First Unitarian Church of Detroit, Detroit, Michigan, NRHP-listed *First Unitarian C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Unitarian Church (Berkeley, California)
The First Unitarian Church in Berkeley, California is a former church building that was built in 1898. It was designed by Albert C. Schweinfurth, who made unconventional use of Shingle Style architecture, usually applied to homes, in designing a church. It was also highly unusual for a church building in several other ways, including the use of industrial-style metal sash windows, sections of redwood tree trunks as pillars, the strong horizontal emphasis, and a semicircular apse with a conical roof."Berkeley Landmarks: First Unitarian Church". Berkeleyheritage.com. 2008-05-15. Retrieved 2013-06-19.The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the California State Historic Resources Survey, and is a City of Berkeley Landmark.Harvey Helfand, ''University of California, Berkeley'' (Princeton Architectural Press, 2002), pp. 177–180. It has also been known as University Dance Studio and Bancroft Dance Studio for its current use. Although originally outside th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Unitarian Church (Stoneham, Massachusetts)
The First Unitarian Church is a historic former church building in Stoneham, Massachusetts. One of Stoneham's more stylish Gothic Revival buildings, the Stick style wood structure was built in 1869 for a Unitarian congregation that was organized in 1858. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, and included in the Central Square Historic District in 1990. It presently houses the local Community Access Television organization. Description and history The First Unitarian Church building is set at the northeast corner of Common and Central Streets on the north side of downtown Stoneham. Across Central Street stand two other churches. This one is a single-story wood-frame structure, its exterior finished in wooden clapboards. The building originally had a number of architecturally significant Stick style features, but many of these have been lost recently. The gable end facing Central Street, and the gabled hood sheltering the entrance, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Unitarian Church (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
The First Unitarian Church is a historic Gothic Revival-styled church built in 1891–92 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. First Unitarian's congregation hired the firm of Ferry & Clas of Milwaukee to design their new church building, and Ferry himself led the design - in reserved Gothic Revival style. Most walls are rock-faced Bedford limestone, rising to steep gable roofs with dormers. The general floor-plan is L-shaped, with a tower rising from one leg of the L. With Inside, the auditorium has a hammerbeam ceiling resting on carved stone corbels. The chancel contains an organ, a pulpit, and a carved oak sedilia In church architecture, sedilia (plural of Latin ''sedīle'', "seat") are seats, usually made of stone, found on the liturgical south side of an altar, often in the chancel, for use during Mass for the officiating priest and his assistants, the .... The windows have abstract designs. The church is little ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Unitarian Church Of Portland
The First Unitarian Church of Portland is a church building located in downtown Portland, Oregon, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Located on S.W. 12th Avenue at Salmon Street, it was constructed and opened in 1924."Unitarian Church to Be Dedicated Today". (November 16, 1924). ''The Oregonian'', section 5, p. 8. History In 1979, the Unitarian church purchased a larger church located directly adjacent, the original First Church of the Nazarene of Portland,"Nazarenes sell church to neighbor: Unitarians next door". (August 8, 1979). ''The Oregonian'', p. C9. which had been built in 1921."New edifice dedicated: First Church of the Nazarene holds formal ceremonies" (August 8, 1921). ''The Morning Oregonian'', p. 14, col 1. Quote: "The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Unitarian Church Of Marietta
The First Unitarian Church of Marietta is a historic Unitarian Universalist church in the city of Marietta, Ohio, United States. Founded in 1869, it uses a building constructed in 1858 for one of its two predecessor churches; this building's high-quality architecture has led to its designation as a historic site. In January 1830, Nahum Ward published an advertisement in the ''Marietta Intelligencer'' seeking to find other friends of liberal religion, and the resulting group organized as a Unitarian church in the following month.Andrews, Martin R. ''History of Marietta and Washington County, Ohio and Representative Citizens''. Chicago: Biographical, 1902. Members laid the cornerstone of their building in July 1855, and by the time of the building's dedication in June 1857, the congregation had paid approximately $25,000 for lot, materials, furnishings, and labor. The original form of the congregation ceased to exist in May 1869 at its merger with the city's Universal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Unitarian Church (Cincinnati, Ohio)
First Unitarian Church is a historic congregation of the Unitarian Universalist Association in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Founded in the early nineteenth century, it survived a series of division and reunifications in the nineteenth century. Among the people who have worshipped in its historic church building on the city's northern side are many members of the Taft family, including William Howard Taft, the President of the United States. History In 1828, a Unitarian minister from Boston visited Cincinnati for approximately five weeks. Upon his return to New England, John Pierpont proclaimed to his compatriots the attractive features of Cincinnati, and within two years a Unitarian congregation was founded in the city. Located at the intersection of Fourth and Race Streets downtown, their first church building was dedicated on May 23, 1830;"The First Congregational Church of Cincinnati". ''The Unitarian'' 4.8 (August 1889): 348-351. it was later replaced by a building at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Unitarian Church Of Rochester
The First Unitarian Church of Rochester is located at 220 Winton Road South in Rochester, New York, U.S. The congregation is one of the largest in its denomination, the Unitarian Universalist Association. The non-creedal church conducts programs in the areas of spirituality, social concerns, music, and arts. This church is one of two Unitarian Universalist congregations in Monroe County, the other being First Universalist Church of Rochester. The church was organized in 1829. Associated with social reform movements from its earliest days, it began attracting a group of reform activists from Quaker backgrounds in the 1840s, one of whom, Susan B. Anthony, became a national leader of the women's suffrage movement. After the first women's rights convention was held at Seneca Falls, New York in 1848, a follow-up convention, the Rochester Women's Rights Convention, was organized two weeks later at the First Unitarian Church of Rochester. Abigail Bush was elected to preside at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Unitarian Church Of Providence
First Unitarian Church of Providence is an American Unitarian Universalist congregation located at the corner of Benefit and Benevolent Streets in Providence, Rhode Island. The congregation was founded in 1723, and the current church building was dedicated in 1816. For many years it was known as the First Congregational Church of Providence. History The first churches in Providence were Baptist. It wasn't until 1721 that the First Congregational Society was formed, and it erected its first house of worship in 1723. This building was known as the "Old Town House", and stood where the Providence County Courthouse now stands. By 1728, there were nine members of the congregation, led by Josiah Cotton as pastor. A new, larger building was built on the corner of Benefit and Benevolent Streets, where the current church now stands. This building was destroyed by fire June 14, 1814. Current building The current building was designed by local architect John Holden Greene, who designed man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Unitarian Church Of Philadelphia
The First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia is a Unitarian Universalist congregation located at 2125 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As a regional Community Center it sponsors cultural, educational, civic, wellness and spiritual activities. On June 12, 1796, twenty of Philadelphia's intellectual leaders formed the First Unitarian Society of Philadelphia, becoming the first continuously functioning church in the country to name itself "Unitarian". The founders were directed and encouraged by the Unitarian minister Joseph Priestley, and its first settled minister was the Rev. Dr. William Henry Furness. William Henry Furness The small but growing congregation was lay-led until 1825, when Rev. Dr. William Henry Furness was persuaded to serve as the first minister at the age of 22. Starting in the 1830s, Furness became one of the few abolitionist ministers in the city, known for his anti-slave sermons and Underground Railroad activities. His speeches were so impassione ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Unitarian Church Of Omaha
The First Unitarian Church of Omaha, Nebraska is a Unitarian Universalist Church located at 3114 Harney Street in the Midtown area. History First Unitarian Church of Omaha was incorporated on August 22, 1869, by twenty-six men and women. Its regular minister was Reverend Henry E. Bond, and its first chapel was a small brick building located at 17th and Cass that was dedicated in 1871. In the fall of 1889 Reverend Newton M. Mann came to serve the church. Mann was the first American minister to promote evolution. The present Colonial Revival building at 31st and Harney was designed by Omaha architects John McDonald and his son Alan McDonald. Former U.S. president William Howard Taft, who was then president of the Unitarian Church Conference in the United States and Canada, presided at the 1917 cornerstone-laying ceremony. The building was dedicated in September 1918. In the 1930s, Sarah Joslyn gave the church its Aeolian-Skinner Æolian-Skinner Organ Company, Inc. of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Unitarian Church Of Detroit
The First Unitarian Church of Detroit was located at 2870 Woodward Avenue in Midtown Detroit, Michigan. Built between 1889 and 1890, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It was destroyed by fire on May 10, 2014. History The First Congregational Unitarian Society was incorporated on October 6, 1850. This church, their second, was dedicated in November 1890. The congregation used the church until 1931, when the widening of Woodward Avenue required a remodeling of the church. At that time, they worshiped with the First Universalist Church of Our Father, whose sanctuary on Cass Avenue had been built in 1916. This arrangement worked out so well that the two congregations merged in 1934 to form the Church of Our Father (Unitarian-Universalist), which later became the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Detroit. The First Unitarian building was then sold in 1937 to the Church of Christ denomination. The building went through other owners before fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Unitarian Church (Somerville, Massachusetts)
The former First Unitarian Church is a historic church building at 130 Highland Avenue in Somerville, Massachusetts. The stone church was built in 1894 for a Unitarian congregation. It was designed by Hartwell & Richardson and is a good example of Richardsonian Romanesque design. The building presently (2022) houses the Mission Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Building history The congregation that built this church was established in 1844 and built its first church in Central Hill Park in the same year. The new building was designed by architect Richard Bond of Boston and built by Louis C. Edgerly of Somerville. It was completed in 1845 and in 1846 the congregation called its first pastor, John Turner Sargent, an associate and defender of Theodore Parker, the transcendentalist.''Somerville, Past and Present'', ed. Edward A. Samuels and Henry H. Kimball (Boston: Samuels and Kimball, 1897) The building was destroyed by fire in 1852 and replaced in 1853-54 with a new church des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
