Second Presbyterian Church is a historic church at 4501 Westminster Place in St. Louis, Missouri.

History

The congregation was founded in 1838 by the Old School Presbytery of St. Louis. It has had three buildings. Its first building, designed in the Greek Revival architectural style and completed in 1840, was located at Fifth (Broadway) and Walnut Streets. Thirty years later, in 1870, a second church building was erected on Lucas Place at Seventeenth Street. The third and current building was completed in 1896. It was designed by German-born architect Theodore C. Link. The adjacent education building was completed in 1931. A large four-manual pipe organ by the Schantz Organ Company was installed in 1965. The organ's tonal design was provided by the church's minister of music Dr. Charles H. Heaton. The church's Compton Lounge is named after

Arthur Compton Arthur Holly Compton (September 10, 1892 – March 15, 1962) was an American particle physicist who won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the Compton effect, which demonstrated the particle nature of electromagnetic radiati ...

, who served as an elder in the church.

Architectural significance

It has been listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...

since 1975.

References

Presbyterian churches in Missouri Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri Romanesque Revival church buildings in Missouri Churches completed in 1896 National Register of Historic Places in St. Louis 1896 establishments in Missouri Churches in St. Louis {{Missouri-Presbyterian-church-stub