The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-06-11
Important Event in History
of the East Main Street
Friends Church to Be OBJ
served on Sunday.
AUDITORIUM ONE OF
LARGEST IN STATE
Church Can Seat Two Thous-
and People.-Entire Inter-
ior of Edifice Has Been
Rearranged.


of the Orthodox Society of Friends of
this city, and an interesting one in
be the dedication of the remodeled In
diana Yearly Meeting House, on East
Main street, on Sunday afternoon, at
half past two O'Clock, although serv-
ices under the auspices of the East
Main Street Friends meeting will be
held in the morning.
The present building has been ex-
tensively remodeled within, the in
terror being now one of the most COM
modious and most effectively arrang-
ed church auditoriums in Richmond
and one of the largest in the state
since it will seat two thousand per-
sons.
The auditorium proper has been re-
arranged by throwing the east and
west sides into one large apartment,
doing away with the separating par
tition and cutting off thirty feet to the
south for an assembly room for local
use, and building the gallery about the
three sides instead of leaving it in the
rear alone, as formerly.
Has New Atmosphere.
The ceiling has been raftered and
painted, and, with the remodeling of
the auditorium, makes the acoustics,
formerly notoriously bad, ALMOST per-
feet. The entire interior is made over
in tones of tan, the walls, ceiling and
floor harmonizing admirably and CIV
in ha otn
not heretofore possessed. Il
The assembly room to the south,
with a library on the east, is a we'll
lighted and effectively decorated
apartment, the library being smaller
but suited to its purposes, there be-
ing an outside entrance on the south
of the assembly room.
An interesting object i'm the foyer
of the church is the corner date stone
of the old Whitewater Yearly Meeting
House lettered with it's date and the
name of the architect of the building.
this being set into the wall, below
which will appear a copper tablet, en-
graved in Cincinnati, with the date of
the erection of the original structure
north of the railroad, 1928. it's archi-
tect, Samuel Fisher; with the date of
the erection of the present building,
1873, and the latter's builders, Henry
and M. c. Henley; and the date of the
remodeled building, 1912.
History Of Building.
+ (The present building was put up in
1878. the plans being drawn in Cincin-
natl, the builders being Henry and M.
c. Henley, Of this city, 1.-THE latter's
name, on small brass plate, appear
ing on the balustrade of the west stair
day leading to the galleries, which was
constructed by Mr.. Henley himself.
There are four chandeliers, each
having twenty-five 60 watt lights, max
ing eighty-eight lights in addition to
the wall and gallery lights, the build
ing having been entirely re-wired.
One of the interesting furnishings of
the foyer is the four benches taken
from the old Whitewater Yearly Meet
ing house.
The entire interior remodeling rep
resents an expenditure of So, 900, which
with the s25O0 on the outside including
the new cement walks and the roof,
makes a total cost for the improve
ments of $11,500.
This expense is borne by the Indiana
Yearly Meeting and Whitewater
Monthly Meeting, the latter sharing
only in the expense of the interior, the
s2500 on the outside being for repairs
that would have had to have been
made without, whether the interior
was remodeled or not.
The matter was in charge of a COM
mittee appointed from the Yearly
Meeting. whose local representatives
were Leander Woodward, Charles G.
Carpenter and John H. Johnson, with
Thomas Elleman representing the
Whitewater Monthly Meeting.
The dedication at half past two
O'Clock on Sunday afternoon is con-
Quoted under the auspices of Indiana
Yearly Meeting. many Of the Board of
trustees to be present together with
the Yearly Meeting committee ap-
pointed to look after the remodeling.
Friends from different parts of the
state viii be in attendance, Rev. Ely
son R Purdie. of Wilmington, Ohio, TO
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