You are here

Wisconsin » Central Plains » Marathon County » Wausau » First Universalist Church

First Universalist Church

-A A +A
1914, Alexander Eschweiler. 504 Grant St.

This impressive Tudor Revival church has an unusual U-shaped plan. Its western leg is a monumental three-story nave, clad in irregular, randomly laid stone. The nave’s front-facing gable embraces a generous Tudor-arched window filled with tracery and stained glass. On the nave’s west side on 5th Street, narrow Gothic windows alternate with stone buttresses. At the southeast corner, a blocky three-stage tower rises to a crenellated parapet and a spire. Inside the nave, great oak trusses spring from stone corbels to support a wood-paneled ceiling, and dark hand-carved oak lends strength to the choir loft, pews, and altar. In contrast to the stone nave, the front-gabled parish house, which forms the other leg of the church’s U-shape, is built of stone at ground level, but the overhanging second and attic stories have false half-timbering. The wing linking the parish house to the nave continues the half-timbered theme in its narrow, steeply pitched gabled wall dormers.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Marsha Weisiger et al.
×

Data

What's Nearby

Andrew Warren Historic District
Nicole’s Boutique and Art, Books, and Banter (Quality Shop and Rilling Electric Company Buildings)
Charles and Dorothy Manson House
Duey and Julia Wright House

Citation

Marsha Weisiger et al., "First Universalist Church", [Wausau, Wisconsin], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/WI-01-MR2.

Print Source

Buildings of Wisconsin

Buildings of Wisconsin, Marsha Weisiger and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2017, 404-404.

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.

,