First Church of Christ, Scientist (Minneapolis, Minnesota)

First Church of Christ, Scientist
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Location

614-620 15th Street, East

Minneapolis, Minnesota
Coordinates 44°58′5.8″N 93°16′0.13″W / 44.968278°N 93.2667028°W / 44.968278; -93.2667028Coordinates: 44°58′5.8″N 93°16′0.13″W / 44.968278°N 93.2667028°W / 44.968278; -93.2667028
Built 1897[1]
Architect Septimus J. Bowler
Architectural style Beaux Arts, Renaissance, Classical Revival
NRHP Reference # 86001340[2][3]
Added to NRHP June 20, 1986

The former First Church of Christ, Scientist, located at 614-620 15th Street, East, in the residential neighborhood of Elliott Park, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was the first Christian Science church building in Minnesota. It was once surrounded by Victorian homes, but most of them have been replaced by apartment buildings. Minneapolis architect S. J. Bowler designed the building in the Doric order. The facade of the building features a deep portico with two fluted columns holding up a pedimented gable.[1]

National Register listing

Current use

The building was used for several years as a laboratory performance space by the Margolis Brown Adaptors Company under the name 'Physical Theatre Lab'. It has been empty since 2001, and was being advertised for sale by a local real estate broker in 2007.[4]

On January 28, 2012, the church was occupied temporarily by a group calling itself 'Minneapolis Space Liberation', as part of the larger Occupy Occupy movement. Approximately 50 people held the church for 45 minutes, during which time they had a dance party and food share. The action was conceived in solidarity with a building occupation in Oakland the same day, and to bring public attention to the many abandoned and neglected properties in the city.

Later history of congregation

In 1914 First Church of Christ, Scientist, built its second edifice at 24th and Nicollet. Designed by noted Chicago architect Solon Spencer Beman, this building is now the Minneapolis First Seventh-day Adventist Church.[5][6][7]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "First Church of Christ Scientist". City of Minneapolis. Retrieved 2007-10-15.
  2. ↑ Staff (2007-01-23). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  3. ↑ "National Register of Historic Places". National Park Service. 2007-10-12.
  4. ↑ Office: First Church of Christ Scientist - The Ackerberg Group accessed 2007
  5. ↑ Minneapolis City Council Minutes at page 6
  6. ↑ Ivey, Paul Eli, Prayers in Stone: Christian Science Architecture in the United States, 1894-1930, Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999, p. 141, ISBN 0-252-02445-1
  7. ↑ Minneapolis First Seventh-day Adventist Church website
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