Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-09-05
TRINITY M. e. CHURCH
Corner Stone of the New Edifce to Be Laid
Wednesday.
The District Grand Lodge of MasOns
Will Conduct the CeremOny-De-
scriptiOn of the New Building.

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stone of their fine new church edifice to be
| erected at the southwest corner of 5th
| and c streets southeast. In the year 1911
| the congregation laid the corner stone Of
their first church building. The station
was then called Ebenezer, with Beverly
Waugh as its pastor. 1t was the first
church edifice built by the Methodists in
Washington city. In 1857 the corner stone
was laid of the second church building.
Rev. w. H. Chapman was then pastor and
| the name then changed to East Wash
ington station, and at a meeting of the
congregation some time s1.ce during the
pastorate of Rev. NJ. f. b. Rice, owing
to the fact that this was to be the third
church building erected by the congrega-
ton, they charged the name to Trinity
The Grand Lodge of +. A. A. NJ of the
District of Columbia, under escort of the
several communicates of Knights Templar
of the District Of Columbia, viii meet at
Naval Lodge building on Wednesday and
proceed to the church site and lay the
stone according to the ritual of the Ma
sonic fraternity. Addresses will be deiv-
Ell ed by Rev. c. L. Pate OF North Capitol
Street NJ. +. Church and Rev. +. l.. Hub
bard, Ph.D., of Baltimore
The new church which is now being
erected will combine strength and fitness
of purpose with Beauty. At the corner
of 9TH and c there IS to be massive tower
| rising hrusquely without a base out Of the
tresses in the lower half. The upper part
of the tower will show recedins panel
faces, but the fuilness of square will be
| resained under the b.lfry windows by cor
beiiinSS. The tower is to be surInounted
above the gallery by a small turret. tel
minating with a pyramdon, the whole
somewhat resembling one OF the towers
Of the PGlaccio Necchio.
The main body of the structure will be
indicated in its full height by the north
gable front. showing the basement. with its
assembly room floor and above the Sunday
school floor. On the west side there will be
a party wall. and as ii vii! probably never
be covered up from view by adjoining
buildings. it VIII he faced with material
like the front so that there will be pleas
ing appearance On all sides.
The edifice, framed in by two stair tow
ers. VIII have main entrance through
arche(i vcstihules between the towers, ANA
which will be marked by projecting gables.
Above this story Will appear four windows
of the auditorium, with four corresponding
windows of the gallery, terminating in
their upward movement by four gables
The south tower viii be analogous to the
north towei. Adjoining the south tower
Will be parsonage, a modest basement
and threc-story brick house. Tho material
of the m ain editiCe. which is red brick will
be treated with decorations of this material
and also of red terra Gotta. though a few
features VIII he outlined in stone. a novel
feature viii be tie stairways which viii
connect the four stories and the exit
Vestihules. They Will serve instead of open
air fire escapes. and will be placed between
the massive brick walls of the tower and
Will be built of granite, cementcd steps
and platform, having the appearance OF
motiled stone
The Interior Arrangement.
The church edifice proper will have a
frontage of I6l2 feet on c street and So
feet on 9TH street, and the parsonage front
will be 21 feet. The basement story will
contain an assembly room for church en-
tertainments, as well as hat and cloak
rooms. and toilet rooms for both sexes
Connected with the assembly room will be
a co;nmodious kitchen and serving room
Tor the preparation of church suppers
Space will also be provided for a library
and reading room, which will also be used
by the members of the Epworth League as
meeting room.
twin steam boilers. which will generate the
neat required in winter for both the church
and the parsonage, and the architect has
prepared a scheme to S.lppiy cool air dur
Ing the summer by means of fan The
basement will be partly below ground but
the Sunday school room will be four feet
above the sidewalk. This latter will con-
sist of a main hall and an infant class
room. which can be divided off by nu.ner-
Gus partitions into seven separate class
rooms
The auditorium will be in the upper story
and Will, with the addition of a gallery
seat about 100 people This auditorium is
10 consist OF a main room. square in plan
with two transepts, but the seats. which
are to be placed in a semi-circular form.
will be so arranged and graded that Tho
preacher will be in full and unintcrruntefs
view from every spot in the church
Inc pulpit and altar rail are to be placed
against the west wall. which will be blank.
SO FAR as windows are concerned b,,t
which will be decorated in an apnronr;a 70
manner, having an arcade of three large
arches' representing the Holy Trinity The
mooeilng OF these arches, piers and springer
courses Is to be in adamant plaster ANA
where the arches intersect there vii, no
two angelic figures bearing the books If
the Old and New Testaments.
IN the southwest corner of the auditorium
there Will be placed fine new organ sur
rounded by choir gallery The church
Is to be lighted in the day by a series of
windows from the north south and east
sides. '' cast
Memorial Windows,
The main auditorium windows will no
divided into two parts, the lower sashes
containing memorial plates Of glass while
the upper portion is to be of stained glass
of uniform design. At night the church
Will be lighted by electricity, although pro-
vision has been made for the use of gas
The architect is Mr.. p. J. Pelz. and the
contractors are Espey & Been whose bid
was I'D, ESQ me building committee is
as follows: Rev. G. w. Hobbs, the pastor
chairman; Maurice Otterhack. secretary:
f. A Belt. w. ]. Palmer, J. T. d. Pyles
T. B. Stahl and A. A Chaplin
The present official board of the church is
as follows: Pastor. Rev. G. W. Hobbs: local
preachers. Rev. Richard Em,nons. G W
Havell and w. D. Bradburn: exhorter. Jnn
Wilkerson; class leaders, Jas. Webb, Ferd,
Espey, W. F. Dove. Jno. Wilkerson. r. W.
Dunn, G. r. Cook, Thos. B. Stahl. H. F.
Belt, F. NJ. Beck. ". w. Bennett and Clar-
ence Beck: trustees Theo. Sniffin, F. A.
Belt. w. j. Palmer, Maurice Otterback. A.
A. Chaplin: stewards, T. b. Stahl, F. A.
Belt. w. F. Dove, w. H. Bohannon. W. J.
Clifford; superintendent Of the Sunday
school, G. R. Cook; president of the Ep-
worth League, A. A. Hancock.
Took Chanccs on the Saan