Reid Memorial Presbyterian Church is an architecturally significant building located at 11th and North "A" Streets in

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. Designed by the

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architectural partnership of

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and

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the building was begun in 1904 and dedicated on May 13, 1906. The building committee had visited the Badgley and Nicklas-designed St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church (no
St. Paul's Memorial United Methodist Church
which had been built by the

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family in

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and the two churches have strikingly similar design elements in the sanctuaries. Reid Church was paid for by

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in memory of his parents Daniel Reid and Anna Gray Reid. The church interiors and windows were designed by

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and the Tiffany Studios. The original organ designed by

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is still in use, though it was rebuilt in 1958 by the

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. The organ was featured with a recital during the

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's 2007 convention in Indianapolis. During the 1920s the Ku Klux Klan was a powerful political and social force in Indiana. In 1922 the Klan was introduced to Richmond by Robert Lyons, who began by recruiting at Reid Church, where his father, Samuel Ross Lyons, had been pastor years earlier. Robert Lyons was eventually appointed national chief of staff for the Klan. Membership having dwindled to a few dozen people, the congregation was dissolved November 5, 2017, and the church closed. The building was listed on the "Ten Most Endangered List" of

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Notes

Sources

* Tomlan, Mary Raddant and Michael A. ''Richmond, Indiana: Its Physical and Aesthetic Heritage to 1920'', Indianapolis:

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, 2003

External links

YouTube video of the church's Tiffany windows

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