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Historic church in Wisconsin, United States
United States historic place
The
First Unitarian Church
is a historic
Gothic Revival
-styled church built in 1891?92 in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
. It was added to the
National Register of Historic Places
in 1974.
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First
Unitarian
's congregation hired the firm of
Ferry & Clas
of Milwaukee to design their new church building, and
Ferry
himself led the design - in reserved Gothic Revival style. Most walls are rock-faced
Bedford limestone
, rising to steep gable roofs with dormers. The general floor-plan is L-shaped, with a tower rising from one leg of the L.
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Inside, the auditorium has a
hammerbeam
ceiling resting on carved stone
corbels
. The
chancel
contains an organ, a
pulpit
, and a carved oak
sedilia
. The windows have abstract designs.
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The church is little changed from when it was built. First Unitarian was placed on the NRHP for its architectural significance, but it is also the oldest Unitarian church building in Milwaukee.
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- Massachusetts
- All Souls Church
- Arlington Street Church
- Bernardston Congregational Unitarian Church
- Brattle Street Church
- First Parish in Cambridge
- First Church in Boston
- First Church in Roxbury
- First Church in Salem
- First Church of Christ, Unitarian
- First Parish Church (Duxbury, Massachusetts)
- First Parish Church (Taunton, Massachusetts)
- First Parish Church (Waltham, Massachusetts)
- First Parish Church in Plymouth
- First Parish Church of Dorchester
- First Parish Church, Arlington Massachusetts
- First Parish in Malden
- First Parish of Sudbury
- First Parish Unitarian Church
- First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church of Scituate
- First Religious Society Church and Parish Hall
- First Unitarian Church (Peabody, Massachusetts)
- First Unitarian Church (Somerville, Massachusetts)
- First Unitarian Church (Stoneham, Massachusetts)
- First Unitarian Society in Newton
- First Universalist Church (Provincetown, Massachusetts)
- First Universalist Church (Salem, Massachusetts)
- First Universalist Church (Somerville, Massachusetts)
- Follen Church Society-Unitarian Universalist
- Housatonic Congregational Church
- King's Chapel
- North Parish Church
- Old Ship Church
- Second Unitarian Church
- Theodore Parker Unitarian Universalist Church
- Unitarian Church of Barnstable
- Unitarian Memorial Church
- Unitarian Society
- Unitarian Universalist Church of Medford and the Osgood House
- United First Parish Church
- Universalist Society Meetinghouse
- Wollaston Unitarian Church
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