Sanctuary Mural, Second Presbyterian Church, Michigan Avenue, Near South Side, Chicago, IL : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Sanctuary Mural, Second Presbyterian Church, Michigan Avenue, Near South Side, Chicago, IL / w_lemay
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| 説明 | Built in 1874, this Gothic Revival-style building was designed by James Renwick and Joseph Sands, and houses the congregation of Second Presbyterian Church, founded in 1842 as an offshoot of the First Presbyterian congregation. Prior to the construction of this building, the church was located in a building at the corner of Wabash Avenue and Washington Street in the Chicago Loop from 1851 until 1871, when the Great Chicago Fire destroyed the old church. Following the fire, the church decided to move to the south side to be closer to the members of the congregation, whom had moved to the affluent Prairie District and other residential areas further from the crowded conditions and heavy traffic of Downtown Chicago. The church was built shortly after the fire alongside the reconstruction of the city, a massive undertaking that transformed Chicago. In 1900, the church again suffered a fire, which led to the modification of the interior of the sanctuary in the Arts and Crafts style by Howard Van Doren Shaw, today being considered one of the best unaltered examples of a historic Arts and Crafts interior. The church’s exterior features a rusticated limestone facade with sandstone trim, a corner tower with a truncated spire and open belfry, gothic arched windows and belfry openings, blind arcades, decorative pinnacles, buttresses, finials, and rosettes, shed dormers on the roof of the sanctuary, a crenellated parapet at the top of the bell tower, stone gable parapets, a rose window on the side gable, a gothic arched entry portal at the central bay of the first floor facade facing Michigan Avenue, gothic arched transoms over the entry doors with tracery, and carved wooden entrance doors. The interior of the church is a simpler composition, featuring hand-crafted woodwork, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Burne-Jones, William Fair Kline, and Gianini and Hilgart stained glass windows, simple wooden pews, decorative sculptures, chandeliers, a vaulted ceiling with wooden coffers and beams, murals by artists including Frederic Clay Bartlett, an organ loft, and a decorative wooden organ case. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, and was listed as a Chicago Landmark in 1977. In 2013, the building was designated as a National Historic Landmark. Today, the church remains in active use by the congregation, and is open to tours by visitors, with the highly intact church interior being quite noteworthy and the most significant feature of the building. |
| 撮影日 | 2024-10-19 11:44:59 |
| 撮影者 | w_lemay , Chicago, IL, United States |
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| 撮影地 | Chicago, Illinois, United States 地図 |