First Church of Christ, Scientist, located at 102 West University Parkway, across from the campus of

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, in the Tuscany-Canterbury neighborhood of

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, in the

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is an historic structure that on December 27, 1982, was added to the

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History

First Church of Christ, Scientist was built in 1911 by noted Baltimore architect, Charles E. Cassell, who designed the Chapel at the

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Current use

First Church of Christ, Scientist is still an active

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church.The Christian Science Journal, December 2007, p. 105

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First Church Baltimore web page
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