Reid Memorial Presbyterian Church
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Memorial Presbyterian Church's manse and church building
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| Location | Richmond, Indiana |
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| Part of | Starr Historic District (#74000026 [1]) |
| Added to NRHP | June 28, 1974 |
Reid Memorial Presbyterian Church is an architecturally significant church located at 11th and North "A" Streets in Richmond, Indiana. Designed by the Cleveland, Ohio architectural partnership of Sidney Badgley and William H. Nicklas the building was begun in 1904 and dedicated on May 13, 1906. The building committee had visited the Badgley and Nicklas-designed St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church (now St. Paul's Memorial United Methodist Church) which had been built by the Clement Studebaker family in South Bend, Indiana and the two churches have strikingly similar design elements in the sanctuaries. Reid Church was paid for by Daniel G. Reid in memory of his parents Daniel Reid and Anna Gray Reid. The church interiors and windows were designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany and the Tiffany Studios. The original organ designed by Hook and Hastings is still in use, though it was rebuilt in 1958 by the Wicks Organ Company. The organ was featured with a recital during the Organ Historical Society's 2007 convention in Indianapolis.
During the 1920s the Ku Klux Klan was a powerful political and social force in Indiana. In 1922 the Klan was introduced to Richmond by Robert Lyons, who began by recruiting at Reid Church, where his father, Samuel Ross Lyons (1849 – 1915), had been pastor years earlier.[2][3][4] Robert Lyons was eventually appointed national chief of staff for the Klan.[5]
The church is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a part of the Starr Historic District.
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Future viability
Early in 2007, the Richmond Art Museum, Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana, Preserve Richmond, Inc. and the Wayne County Historical Society collaborated to host a symposium on the church's Tiffany history and to discuss the future viability of the church's dwindling congregation. A speaker from Partners for Sacred Places presented several possible alternatives but the church is still in jeopardy.
Sources
- Tomlan, Mary Raddant and Michael A. Richmond, Indiana: Its Physical and Aesthetic Heritage to 1920, Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 2003
External links
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- Historic district contributing properties in Indiana
- National Register of Historic Places in Wayne County, Indiana
- Presbyterian churches in Indiana
- Gothic Revival churches in Indiana
- Religious buildings completed in 1906
- 20th-century Presbyterian church buildings
- Buildings and structures in Richmond, Indiana
- Properties of religious function on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana
