Identifier: historicalintere00head (find matches)
Title: Historical and interesting places of Saint Louis
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Head, Idress. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (St. Louis?)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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stchurches in the world. The ornamentation chosenfor the columns in the great northern and easternfacades are of the chaste Ionic type. The cornerstone was laid in 1901. The Second Baptist Church, and First Churchof Christ (Scientist) are by Mauran, Russell &Garden, architects. The First Church was built in 1905. A verybeautiful building of brick and stone of Renais-sance design, with good simple detail, and an at-tached portico of the Doric order. The landscapeeffect of the grounds is very charming. Temple Israel, on an opposite corner from St.Johns and the Second Baptist, is a magnificentbuilding of stone, also completed in the fall of1908. A Roman Temple, costing $200,000, in theCorinthian order, with stone columns and richlycarved capitals and frieze. (Barnet, Haynes &Barnet, architects.) The entire interior is exe-cuted in Caen stone, making a marked contrastwith the rich colors of the windows and the Pom-peian green bronze of the chandeliers and fixtures. SAINT LOUIS 107
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108 SAIXT LOUIS The windows, which are memorials, show sym-bols of the Jewish faith. A most artistic paneling of glass mosaic isplaced around the inclosure within the wall forthe ark of the covenant, and is unlike anythingthat has ever been done in the West. This goldand iridescent mosaic changes with every changeof the light and air, never appearing alike on anytwo days, and its opalescent hues vary as thespectator stands in different parts of the building.This decoration, surrounded by beautifully de-signed grill work, is all within a great arch whosepurpose is to conceal the organ pipes. The richgallery of bronze over the organ has upon it,placed in relief, the ten commandments andCrown of the Law, with rays of light radiatingfrom the tablets. The rabbis study is designedin old English, handsomely wainscoted andpaneled in bog oak, the walls in delft blue. Amassive fireplace is constructed of Gray Romanbrick with carved stone corbels supporting themassive shelf. The Second Baptist,

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