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St. Matthew's UCC

St. Matthew's UCC
St. Matthew's UCC

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a.k.a. St. Matthew's Evangelical

3007 N First Ave
Evansville, IN

Quick Timeline

1914 Church is built
1951 New church replaces old structure

Location

East side of First Ave, between Lohoff and Allens
District: Harwood
Latitude: 38.006251
Longitude: -87.57411
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Architecture


History


Comments

st matthews evangelical was an outgrowth of Zion Evangelical church sunday school into congregation begun in 1909 at Harwood School organized 1914 original church/school built 1916 adjacent to present one 4/28/17 +pic http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:EANX-NB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=1455123BAE52F2A0&svc_dat=HistArchive:ahnpdoc&req_dat=0F92E9E8E118A68E 12/3/16ec +sketch looks like school (still there?) sunday school aka avondale

fellowship hall

rectory built 10/24/1937 on first ave at allen's ln (s of church? where parking lot is) 2913 n first? sketch 11/19/43 ep but delayed? war?

new sanctuary in 1951

new addition combining the the hall and church built 1968 educational building 1968 by anderson & loer

parsonage torn down (by EVSC) for parking lot


See also

Press article - Building work stats today (6/6/1950)
Press article - St Matthew's history (10/31/1964)
11/19/1943 + sketch
St Matthew's UCC website
HistoricEvansville.com: Churches / Religion
HistoricEvansville.com: Harwood district

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