Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-04-09
Description Of the New Structure
Erected at . Cost Of
$15, 200.
eclal to Times Republical,.

grand sermon ana was listened to With
GREATNESS interest by the vast audi
lence. AT the morning service Judge
Struble. chairman of the building COM
mittee, reported on the state of the.
finances. A large sum of money was
raised during the morning service to
meet the Indebtedness still standing
against the new edifice The dedicatory
pastor of the church, and President
prayer. At the afternoon service adj
dresses of greeting We're delivered:
For the Baptist church, DR.. c. N.
Lathrop; for the United Brethren, Rev.
NJ. r. Drury; for the Methodists, Rev.
E. L. Miller; for the Presbyterian, Rev.
J.SI. Smith. Rev. T. o. Douglass deliv-
cred an address on congregational
Fellowship
In the evening Rev. o. H. L. Mason,
of Green Mountain, delivered the SER
mon. Special music had been prepared
for all the services and the Very best
talent OF the city participated. Some
of the solos and anthems were especial
lys fine.
Toledo Congregationalists may we'll
feel proud OF their new home. 1t has
cost many sacrifices on the part of the
membership. The building, lot and fur
nishings cost in the neighborhood of
s15,OOO They now have the finest
church building in the city.
The building is an imposing struc-s
ture of pressed brick, trimmed With cut
stone. The principal entrance is at the
northeast corner into vestibule,
thence into the auditorium. This room
lis forty-eight feet square with bowling
floor. seated with comfortable opera
chairs of veneered oak, arranged in
three sections, with a regular seating
capacity of $50. which face the south
west, the pulpit occupying the south.
west corner of the room. The ceiling is
supported by five arches and the room
is also we'll ventilated in the ceiling.
There are beautiful opalesent glass.
lwindows turnout the building, but
those in the auditorium are especially
fine. being arranged with one large one
on both east and north, which have
smaller ones on each side, making a
very tasteful effect. The walls are
lSfrescoed in gold and colors. arranged in
panels, and the taste that has been dis
played in this particular certainly be-
speaks the highest skill. not only. in
free hand work, hut in the selection of
stints and arrangement OF designs.
The wood work turnout Is hard pine.
finished in oil, with copper bronze
trimmings for the doors.
West of the auditorium we find the
IsSunday school room, which is 1Sx36 feet
and separated from the auditorium by
Trolling panels Of hard pine, and which
can easily be made a part OF tho audi
ltorium proper when occasion demands,
and SO skillfully has the architect plan
! ned that a seat in the Sunday school
room gives as good a view. OF the pulpit.
as any place In the house. This room
| has the uniform finish Of the balance of
the building. On the south there are
two pnrlors. pastors study. choir room
land a library, a large part OF which can
also be thrown into the main room by a
rolling PANEL.
The building is lighted tllruout by
electricity. In the auditorium there are
three reflectors, two with clusters of
mine incandescent globes, and one over
1.-The pulpit With a cluster of three, while
glass shades. complete the work and
| The Sunday school room has two re-
\ Electors OF four lights each and wall
Light, while each of the other rooms
have one light each.
4 Two hot air furnaces furnish heat,
and are so arranged that any part of
the building can be heated separately,
with sufficient capacity to make the
whole comfortable in the severest
weather.
There is a basement under the whole
building. which will be finished up in
| a kitchen. boiler room and receptacles
for fuel.
1 Every citizen in Toledo can not but
| feel proud of this church., and that while
1t is the property of a certain denomina-
ton. that in a broader sense 1t is the
property OF the common public, by
whose generous aid and encouragement
these people We're prompted to the UNI
4 dertaking.
EvANGEL1cAN CONFERENCE.