Second Presbyterian Church (St. Louis, Missouri)


Second Presbyterian Church
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Church on a 1907 postcard
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Location	4501 Westminster Pl., St. Louis, Missouri
Coordinates	38°38′51″N 90°15′20″W / 38.64750°N 90.25556°W / 38.64750; -90.25556Coordinates: 38°38′51″N 90°15′20″W / 38.64750°N 90.25556°W / 38.64750; -90.25556
Area	9.9 acres (4.0 ha)
Built	1896 (1896)
Architect	Multiple
Architectural style	Romanesque architecture, Richardsonian Romanesque
NRHP Reference #	75002140^[1]
Added to NRHP	September 11, 1975

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.^[2] 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.^[3] Thirty years later, in 1870, a second church building was erected on Lucas Place at Seventeenth Street.^[3]

The third and current building was completed in 1896.^[2] It was designed by German-born architect Theodore C. Link.^[2] The adjacent education building was completed in 1931.^[2]

Architectural signifiance

It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1975.^[1]

References

1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
1 2 3 4 "Second Presbyterian Church St. Louis, Missouri". American Presbyterians. 68 (3): 206. Fall 1990. JSTOR 23332669. (registration required (help)).
1 2 "History and Architecture". Second Presbyterian Church. Retrieved 15 May 2015.

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