Fourth Presbyterian Church, Michigan Avenue, Streeterville, Chicago, IL : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Fourth Presbyterian Church, Michigan Avenue, Streeterville, Chicago, IL / w_lemay
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| 説明 | Built in 1912-1914, this Gothic Revival and Tudor Revival-style church was designed by Ralph Adams Cram and Howard Van Doren Shaw to house the congregation of the Fourth Presbyterian Church, which was founded in 1871 when the congregation of North Presbyterian Church merged with the congregation of Westminster Presbyterian Church. The first sanctuary was dedicated the day of the Great Chicago Fire, and was claimed in the blaze, with a new church being built in 1874 at the corner of Rush Street and Superior Street, a few block south of the present church, along what was then the principal street of the near north side of the city, as the DuSable Bridge was not built until the early 20th Century, and Michigan Avenue terminated at the Chicago River. The church moved to the present building, then on Pine Street, as Michigan Avenue had not yet had the bridge built across the Chicago River, in 1912, making it one of the oldest structures along the Magnificent Mile north of the river, and it was built in a then-underdeveloped area of the city. The sanctuary was designed by notable Boston-based architect Ralph Adams Cram in the Gothic Revival style, and is faced with limestone, with an octagonal tower topped with a stone spire, decorative stone tracery above the front entrance portal, which features a carved relief in the gothic arched panel above the door, gothic arched stained glass windows, buttresses, a multi-gabled roof with front and side gables, decorative finials and gargoyles, and vines growing up the Michigan Avenue facade. The parish house, manse, garth, and cloister to the south of the sanctuary were designed by Howard Van Doren Shaw at the same time as the church, and was built simultaneously, but utilizing the Tudor Revival style in addition to the Gothic Revival style. The south wing features a Gothic Revival-style cloister faced with limestone with gothic arched openings and ceilings with decorative wooden beams, as well as decorative pilaster sand pinnacles, and is covered with vines. The parish house and manse, which wrap around the garth, or courtyard, on two sides, are Tudor Revival-style buildings, with limestone cladding, leaded glass casement windows, shed roof dormers, side gable roofs, stucco cladding and half-timbering on the gable ends, with gothic arched recessed door openings with gothic arched transoms, multiple two-story bay windows, oriel windows, crenellated parapets, and several gothic arched windows and carved relief panels. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, and received a large western addition, designed by Gensler, in 2012, which is a contemporary edifice that contrasts nicely with the historic building to the east. The building continues to house the Fourth Presbyterian Church congregation, which has grown substantially from its size when the Michigan Avenue building was constructed, and now has over 6,000 members. |
| 撮影日 | 2022-11-07 11:55:11 |
| 撮影者 | w_lemay , Chicago, IL, United States |
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| 撮影地 | Chicago, Illinois, United States 地図 |