The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1919-09-18
First Presbyterian Church to
Meet Demands of Con1n1unif,
BY REV. w. NJ. GRAFTON

BY REV. w. NJ. GRAFTON
We are happy to present to our
readers picture of the First Pres
byterian church of Cakes. now in
process of erection.
The excavation has been completed
and we most heartily thank those
good farmers who lent their teams
and themselves to this necessary
work. ~,
Harris q Holder, contractors. have
already begun to lay the foundations.
and within two weeks. with no bad
luck, the basement will be completed.
The style Of structure is new in
North Dakota as the architectural
plan is Spanish ID design.
The two double front doors open to
broad stairways leading into the base.
ment. Here we enter one of the finest,
IL not the very best church gymnas.
ium in North Dakota. There are
dressing rooms for the young 'men
where they prepare for giving an en-
tertainment occasionally to the public
at large. Here also is. dressing
room for the young ladies when in
costume they may arrange toilet for
public entertainments in the gym.
On one side, curtained of, at least
$50 can be seated comfortably to en-
Joy the evenings entertainment, seat.
ed in flve communicating rooms. Here
can be played volley ball and basket
ball. A fully equipped gymnasium is
expected to be one Of the real accom-
plishments in time. Here are six
lockers for the boys and six for the
girls. Shower baths will be one Of
the enjoyable features Of the gym
nasium. At proper places drinking
fountains will be installed.
Besides. the basement will be used
as parlor. kitchen and dining room
where $50 may dine at once. The
banquet room or dining room will be
as beautiful as any room of the
church. The kitchen will be equip
ped with modern devices, up-to-date
and thoroughly sanitary.
On Sunday the basement will be a
modern Sunday school room with all
the paraphernalia for the differing
ages and classes. The main sunday
school room will seat $50 with six
class rooms communicating.
Appropriate chairs and tables will
be provided the kindergarten and pri-
mary rooms. The basement should
be more properly called the first
story of the church, for 1t is as well
lighted as the main auditorium by
providing large light areas back of
the numerous windows to the twelve
foot basement. The entire first
story, furnace rooms and fuel rooms
excluded, will be finished with as
much care and cost as the upper
story. This is the first church base
ment story that has been prepared
since the world war in North Dakota
to meet the needs of the young peo-
pie such as all the Y. ii. c. A. and
Y. w. G. A. activities, including read
ing rooms as place of recreation
and clean sport.
o. A. Juelke, our fellow townsman,
has been awarded the contract of in
stalling furnaces, one in each end of
the church basement, perfectly heat
ing the entire building o. part Of it
only as required.
The main auditorium will seat
about 400, including the capacity OF
the lecture room and parlor in the
rear and the gallery over the lecture
room.
The choir room is on one side and
the pastors study on the other side
with space for pipe organ between
the two. while Immediately behind
the pulpit is. the choir loft with seats
slightly elevated in tiers. lie floor
is neither slant nor bowl but like
cathedral churches which are never
amphitheater, 1t is level.
The ldea Of the committee and the
architect was to build church that
lends and produces a worshipful at
mosphere. The furnishings will be
in keeping with the spirit Of worship,
whether stained glass windows are
used with beautiful figures from the
history Of the church or out Of the
Bible outright, or opalescent glass,
creating lovely rose windows. Prism
glass may be used temporarily and
memorial windows later. There will
not be one post in the auditorium ia
mar the vision 90 as to exclude a
single worshipper from seeing the
platform and pulpit. Tho semicircn.
lar psws, Indirect lighting system,
have added a later years much 70 the
oom1ort oe worshippers. These VIII