You are here

First Presbyterian Church (now United Christian Presbyterian Church)

-A A +A
now United Christian Presbyterian Church
1893. Southwest corner of Court and Pearl streets

This low brick church with stone details has the character of a late nineteenth-century English Victorian village or country church. The windows with their stone lintels are either square headed or display a wide pointed arch. Above the first floor, the entrance tower is shingled and four corner finials embrace the tall spire.

Writing Credits

Author: 
David Gebhard and Gerald Mansheim
×

Data

What's Nearby

Citation

David Gebhard and Gerald Mansheim, "First Presbyterian Church (now United Christian Presbyterian Church)", [Bedford, Iowa], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/IA-01-SO007.

Print Source

Buildings of Iowa, David Gebhard and Gerald Mansheim. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, 310-310.

If SAH Archipedia has been useful to you, please consider supporting it.

SAH Archipedia tells the story of the United States through its buildings, landscapes, and cities. This freely available resource empowers the public with authoritative knowledge that deepens their understanding and appreciation of the built environment. But the Society of Architectural Historians, which created SAH Archipedia with University of Virginia Press, needs your support to maintain the high-caliber research, writing, photography, cartography, editing, design, and programming that make SAH Archipedia a trusted online resource available to all who value the history of place, heritage tourism, and learning.

,