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VOL. LXXXVII. RrHM
First Presby
\\ iili tin* services mi March tin* lind the con
it rogation ot the First Presbyterian church be
mm use til' the new ediliee en Uarwood ami Wood
Streets, leaving the <>ld liouse ot' worship on
llanvood and Main Streets, al'ter an occupancy
of about thirty-three years. The new church is
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foundation of concrete <>u tlie solid roek. It is
of the ('lassie Corinthian style of architecture,
with great dome of bronze, topped with an ornate
lantern and has a commanding position at the
luin of Ilarwood Street, so that when viewed
from Commerce. Main or Him it seems to he at
tto* head ol the street.
Pile building is situated in an obtuse angle and
:ts general form is that of a widespread fan. It
covers a let.that faces 1<>u feet on Wood Street
and loO on Ilarwood.
To the main building
there are two entrances,
one from Ilnrwood ami
one from Wood. Two
('o'liintliian columns at
each side of eaeh door
support the portico.
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nice is st ivmr! i11 11r11 .in '
beautified by tlie modilliens
at. architrave and
roof. Immediately above
l be doors the lintel is
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, ... HI II V Mil , .->11 [' ( n M It'll I?V MilU'l\
pilasters. relieving the angled lines over the windows
ot* the first lloor. In the aivhitrave of the
door oil ITarwooil Street are the words "(??h1 is
J.ove." In a like place over the Wood Street
entrance is "'(oal is F.ijrht.'* Wide stone steps
with easy grade I *ad from the sidewalk to the
portico, a rise id" nl>oiit six feet.
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The doors are heavy oak. witli ornate light
panels and mountings of brass. Knelt valve is
lour feet wide and eight feet high. They open
outward from the foyer, extending entirely
across the outer edge of the fan-shaped, audi
torium and shutting out tlie sounds of the street.
Tlio valves opening both ways between the ves
libido and auditorium are of heavy oak. leather
OND, NEW ORLEANS, ATLANTA. A
rterian Chui
tin.anted, bearing ;i round light live leel uIka
tm* . i in ioyer lias mi.* Hour, paiji-lcil waiN
and fretted eeiling twelve l'eet above the Moor,
in panels 011 the auditorium side are large pielures
of i?aslors, Dr. A. 1*. Smith, Dr. \Y. M.
Audei"son. i >j*. James O Ken vis and Dr. Tliornton
AYhaling.
The big pipe organ > at the fis-tis of" the fan
.ml 1 H'low the choir loft is the pulpit, Behind
the pulpit is the bench of three seats, brass-armed
and leather-mounted. 1 lefore the pulpit, following
the circle of the wall, arc oaken p.-ws with
lour full aisles ami a half aisle in each of the
three, sections. There are twenty rows of pews
n ih?- mam tWr. Tin- l>al?*<?ny covers the foyer
and a nait of the auditorium. is conveniently
sloped and has ten tiers of pews in six sections
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH,
DALLAS. TEXAS.
\bovr the auditorium the vaulted ceiling
under the dome lets in soft iiirlit tlivniurh si\
teen sections of art glass, supported l?y bron/.e
ribs.
Sl'XOAN SOI lOOl BI?1LI?INCS.
To the right of the pulpit is the Sunday school
oiiilding, which may he thrown into the audi*
oriunt scheme hy the opening of sliding doors,
making a forlv-foot clearance. The first floor is
seated with opera chairs and the haleony corresponds
to that in the main hall. It has opera
chairs.
Onlv concealed liirhts jiiv used in the illumination.
Those from the hiirh eeilinjr aiv supported
by brass chains. Those of lower elevation are
embedded in the ceilings, and are covered with
globes of gi-outKl glass. Four flanged eleetrie
fans a?*e installed for cooling the church.
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1 i? ground :!ix'i i?i the Sunday school section
has a great room, entered from the lobby at the
iitraiiee from 11.u w.mh1 street and \v _-!I equipped
l'or the Westminster League and like uses.
There are four other large rooms for Sunday
>vhool classes of large siy.e. On occasion these
.nay all be thrown into one by the drawing apart
of sliding doors. On the second Moor there are
r<--"pti >n rooms at the llarwood Street side and
nine seetion rooms for Sunday school use. All
> tlu-se rooms may !> made to open upon the
: it!pit. wlrieh is iu view from every part of the
ouilding.
The pastor's study is at the rear of the Sumla\
school section and has entrance from llarwood
Street.
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The basement under
the Sunday school section
has the kitchen,
serving and dining
ivoms, the furnace room
and the vaeuutn cleaner
uuttit. There is a heater
for supplying hot
tSBt'W water in ht lavatories
nv?"'. i.iiu<-> ajiu nil* iunr
E ture. The rest i< ?f steel
.11-1 ooncr-le. .?r plaster.
^jShBBP u ii'!> 1 i 1:1: til.'
floor for the main seoti<
ii ami harilwood on
concrete for the Sunday
school il e n ;i r t m ? n t
.Steam heat to lie used. Two .stairways lead between
the basement and the first tloor within and
two outside. There are six stairways between
1 he first 'leer and the second, or baleony tloor.
The ehureh seat ins; It.OOO eould be cleared in
three minutes, it is estimated.. It :s ir>t expert
i-d that it ever will be. for srenerally ehurehes
have a lintreriusr crowd. The kitehen and dinn?_r
ntoius will ai-eoiumodate ">( (? persons I'o"
serial occasions.
Twenty openings have hern made for eonmv:i?>ii
of the vaemmi cleaner and fifty feet of hose
permit the transportation of the cleaner about
the floors. The place will be spick without use
of broom or duster and there is to be no flvinir
particle to briny danger of disease. Sanitation
is to he a prime object First floor and haleonv
are enrooted.