First Church of Christ, Scientist | |
Berkeley Landmark
No. 5 | |
Location | 2619 Dwight Way, Berkeley, California |
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Coordinates | 37°51′56.75″N 122°15′21.75″W / 37.8657639°N 122.2560417°W |
Built | 1910 |
Architect | Bernard Ralph Maybeck |
Architectural style | Mixed (more Than 2 Styles From Different Periods) |
NRHP reference No. | 77000283 |
BERKL No. | 5 |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | December 22, 1977 [2] |
Designated NHL | December 22, 1977 [3] |
Designated BERKL | December 15, 1975 [1] |
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Berkeley, now also known as Christian Science Society, Berkeley, is a Christian Science church, located at 2619 Dwight Way at Bowditch Street across the street from People's Park, in Berkeley, in Alameda County, California. [4]
The Christian Science Society, Berkeley continues to meet in their over-100-year-old church building. [5]
The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Berkeley held its first service in Wilkin's Hall, 2412 Haste Street, on Sunday, March 12, 1905, and its present membership— October, 1905—is forty-eight. A lot was bought (2892 Dwight Way) in June, and a church building will be erected later on.
— The Christian Science Journal (December 1905) [6]
The historic 1910 church was designed by renowned architect Bernard Ralph Maybeck (1862–1957), in a primarily American Craftsman style, with Byzantine Revival, Romanesque Revival, and Gothic Revival style elements. [7] The church is widely considered one of Maybeck's masterpieces. [8] [9]
The basic plan is that of a square or Greek cross, with two pair of great crossed trusses spanning the central space overhead. In 1929 a Sunday School addition was added to the Church.
It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1977, and is on the National Register of Historic Places in Alameda County, California. [3] [10]
In October 2005, the Friends of First Church Berkeley were awarded a prestigious federal Save America's Treasurers (SAT) Grant, for the roof replacement and seismic strengthening of the 1910 Church and much of the 1929 Sunday School addition. [11] The church received a Getty Architectural Conservation Implementation Grant in 2006, to enable the completion of the seismic strengthening of the Church and Sunday School addition. [11] [12] In 2009 and 2010, the Friends of First Church Berkeley received University of California Berkeley Chancellor's Community Partnership Grants for restoring the garden setting of the church. [11]
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First Church of Christ, Scientist | |
Berkeley Landmark
No. 5 | |
Location | 2619 Dwight Way, Berkeley, California |
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Coordinates | 37°51′56.75″N 122°15′21.75″W / 37.8657639°N 122.2560417°W |
Built | 1910 |
Architect | Bernard Ralph Maybeck |
Architectural style | Mixed (more Than 2 Styles From Different Periods) |
NRHP reference No. | 77000283 |
BERKL No. | 5 |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | December 22, 1977 [2] |
Designated NHL | December 22, 1977 [3] |
Designated BERKL | December 15, 1975 [1] |
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Berkeley, now also known as Christian Science Society, Berkeley, is a Christian Science church, located at 2619 Dwight Way at Bowditch Street across the street from People's Park, in Berkeley, in Alameda County, California. [4]
The Christian Science Society, Berkeley continues to meet in their over-100-year-old church building. [5]
The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Berkeley held its first service in Wilkin's Hall, 2412 Haste Street, on Sunday, March 12, 1905, and its present membership— October, 1905—is forty-eight. A lot was bought (2892 Dwight Way) in June, and a church building will be erected later on.
— The Christian Science Journal (December 1905) [6]
The historic 1910 church was designed by renowned architect Bernard Ralph Maybeck (1862–1957), in a primarily American Craftsman style, with Byzantine Revival, Romanesque Revival, and Gothic Revival style elements. [7] The church is widely considered one of Maybeck's masterpieces. [8] [9]
The basic plan is that of a square or Greek cross, with two pair of great crossed trusses spanning the central space overhead. In 1929 a Sunday School addition was added to the Church.
It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1977, and is on the National Register of Historic Places in Alameda County, California. [3] [10]
In October 2005, the Friends of First Church Berkeley were awarded a prestigious federal Save America's Treasurers (SAT) Grant, for the roof replacement and seismic strengthening of the 1910 Church and much of the 1929 Sunday School addition. [11] The church received a Getty Architectural Conservation Implementation Grant in 2006, to enable the completion of the seismic strengthening of the Church and Sunday School addition. [11] [12] In 2009 and 2010, the Friends of First Church Berkeley received University of California Berkeley Chancellor's Community Partnership Grants for restoring the garden setting of the church. [11]
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