This Presbyterian congregation began here in a frame building in 1876, but needing more space, they sold the building to the First Christian Church congregation, which moved it down the street to 415 Delaware Avenue. The Presbyterians’ new Gothic Revival church of brick and cast-stone, built by August Wennerlund, was a gift from the children of industrialist J. J. White. A square entrance tower at the corner bristles with castellation and pinnacles and is anchored by stepped buttresses. Stained glass windows light the interior’s auditorium plan.
Kramer and Lindsley and contractor Wennerlund also worked together on the contemporary St. Alphonsus Catholic Church (1922; 503 Delaware), an Italian-influenced Romanesque Revival design highlighted by two tall square towers flanking the gabled front with its blind arcade.