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Lake Street Church of Evanston

This is an archived listing.

Address

607 Lake St.

Neighborhood

Evanston

Architect

Cass Chapman, 1875

Website

lakestreet.org

Description

The oldest of the four remarkable churches surrounding Raymond Park was commissioned in 1872 by a congregation that was already 14 years old. A financial panic delayed the completion of the Gothic-Revival building until 1875. Pointed-arch windows and the tall, slender steeple above the belltower give a strong vertical orientation to the stucco-clad brick building. The sanctuary is simple, but it has an ornate dark-timber hammerbeam roof.

Archived In

2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018