Second Church of Christ, Scientist (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
Second Church of Christ, Scientist | |
| NRHP reference No. | 86000139[1] |
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| Added to NRHP | January 16, 1986 |
The St. Luke Emanuel Missionary Baptist Church, formally Second Church of Christ, Scientist, is a historic Neoclassical-styled church built in 1913 in
It was in 1866 that
Christian Scientist Association in Lynn, Massachusetts. In 1879 she established the Mother Church in Boston. In 1884 a Christian Science Association was established in Milwaukee, the first such association outside Massachusetts.[3]
After years of renames, splits, mergers, and moves, in 1909 one of the spinoff congregations incorporated as Second Church of Christ, Scientist, Milwaukee. They initially met at Plankinton Hall of the
Milwaukee Auditorium, but in 1914 moved to their new church, the subject of this article.[3]
Architect Carl Barkhausen of Milwaukee somewhat modeled the 1914 church on the
terra cotta. Inside the portico is a vestibule, and behind that the main auditorium. That auditorium has a pulpit and organ in an apse in the wall, with pews circled around, seating 1,450 people. The roof of the auditorium is a low dome topped with a copper roof lantern.[3]
The Christian Science Association that built the church eventually declined, and the building was occupied by St. Luke Emanuel Missionary
Baptist Church.[2]
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ a b "Second Church of Christ Scientist". Architecture and History Inventory. Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2017-11-09.
- ^ a b c Robin D. Wenger; Hatala (1985-12-02). "Intensive Survey Form: Second Church of Christ Scientist". State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Retrieved 2017-11-09. With one photo.