First Church of Christ, Scientist is the main congregation for
Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, but its territory falls in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. With a population of 498,715 ...
’s
Christian Science
Christian Science is a set of beliefs and practices associated with members of the Church of Christ, Scientist. Adherents are commonly known as Christian Scientists or students of Christian Science, and the church is sometimes informally know ...
community. Its historic
Greek revival
The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but ...
church edifice is located on the corner of Fifteenth Street, N.E., and Peachtree Street in the city's Midtown section and is a
contributing property
In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic distri ...
in the
Ansley Park Historic District
Ansley Park is an intown residential district in Atlanta, Georgia, located just east of Midtown and west of Piedmont Park. When developed in 1905-1908, it was the first Atlanta suburban neighborhood designed for automobiles, featuring wide, wi ...
.
The church was opened in 1914, replacing a smaller church building at 17 West Baker Street, where services were held since 1899. The church's architect,
with
Edward Emmett Dougherty
Edward Emmett Dougherty, a.k.a. Edwin Dougherty (March 18, 1876 – November 11, 1943) was an architect in the southeastern United States. One of his best known designs was the Tennessee War Memorial Auditorium in Nashville in 1922. The work wo ...
's firm, was also a congregant. The church claims to be the first air-conditioned building in Atlanta, having used a primitive system of involving fans blowing over blocks of ice placed in the passages beneath the floor of the main auditorium.
See also
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Sue Harper Mims
*
First Church of Christ, Scientist (disambiguation) The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., is the administrative headquarters and mother church of the Church of Christ, Scientist.
First Church of Christ, Scientist may also refer to:
Australia
* A church in Bowral ...
References
External links
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Official web siteReview of the church’s architecture
Churches in Atlanta
Christian Science churches in the United States
1914 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
Churches completed in 1914
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