Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-08-07

MCINTYRE RESIDENCE
SITE TO BE LOCATION
NEW EDIFlCE WILL OCCUPY COR
NER PROPERTY ACROSS THE
STREET FROM PRESENT
CHURCH BUILDING

Plans for new Congregational
church for Eagle River are complete
The committee, Amos Radcliffe, E. w.
Ellis, August Krieck, Fred Strong and
| A. J. Austin have selected plans that
will give the local congregation one of
| the most beautiful and practical
churches in northern Wisconsin. The.
church, when completed, will cores
pond in appearance to the accompany
ing picture, with the one difference
that it will be the reverse, i'll arrange
ment Of the picture, the building to
face the south west, instead Of the
northwest as was the intention when
the cut was made.
The church has acquired tho Fred
McIrtyre property and will begin to
excayate for the new church as soon
as the Mcintyre house can be sold and
moved. The old church will serve as
church until the new church is ready
for occupancy. The committee plans
to transform it later into a beautiful
colonial type of house which will
serve as a parsonage. The old parson-
age has been sold to Mr.. Mcintyre.
The new church will be about 44x8O
feet with square tower 14x14 in adj
dition. The entrance will be in the
tower. AS you enter, you will find
right in front of you, doors opening up
into beautiful suite of rooms with
south and east windows. These rooms
are to serve for Sunday school pur-
poses on Sunday and for various social
and community purposes on week days
To the left as you enter is the passage
leading to the auditorium, which will
seat about $50 people. The auditorium
will be lighted by large windows on
the west and the east. The organ and
choir lofts and pulpit will be in the
north end of the church. The organ
pipes will be hidden behind screens as
is the practice in modern churches
The organ console will be in the east
side of the loft giving the organist an
opportunity to direct the choir. The
choir loft will seat a chorus of thirty
singers. The pulpit and choir loft will
be set eff from the rest of The auditor
ium by "a sasnple, dignified rail. The
arrangement of the pews will be about
the same as that of the present church
To the east of the auditorium, tran
mid o111 1.11T1 iToor hn an
tire length of the church, will furnish
rooms for the pastor and choir; also
three or four good Sunday School
rooms. All of these rooms, except the
pastors room will open up into the
main auditorium by folding doors. The
social rooms in the south end of the
church will also open into the auditor
um by folding doors, giving the
church seating capacity OF four or
five hundred whenever occasion de-
mands an enlarged seating capacity.
A stairway in the tower leads to a
large room upstairs, above the social
rooms which will also serve for Sun
| day school and social purposes, and
which can serve as gallery for the
auditorium should occasion for it's use.
arise.
The basement is entered by a stair
way, also in the tower room. 1t will
contain an up-to-date Kitchen, large
dining room, toilets, organ motor and
| furnace and fuel rooms.
! The church will be built of brick
with stone trimmings. The windows
will be large affording abundant light
The plans call for indirect electric
| lighting.
The plans for the church were
drawn by Mr.. G. B. Baker of La Grange
Oregon and generously donated to the
church, upon the request of Mr. Au-
gust STANCE, member Of the church
in La Grange which serves as pat
tern for the local church. The total
cost Of the church, without furnishings
will be $4,000.
The building of this fine church is
made possible by the generosity of Mr..
and Mrs. STANCE of Merrill who furn-
ish a large cash subscription and the
organ The members and friends of
the local Congregation are making
plans to raise the balance required.
The Earnest Workers have promised
$4,000 by January 1, 1925 and expect to
have most of this pledge in hand by
September 1st The men Of the church
will put on a campaign for funds dur
! ing the coming week.
Citizens of Eagle River whether
members of this congregation, some
other, or no congregation, have every
reason to be proud of this new building
which is to be erected in such beautI
full location and which is being built
to serve the varied needs Of the COM
munity. 1t will add greatly to the beau
! ty Of the village and afford an ade-
| quate center for many community