Wilshire Boulevard Congregational Church with fundraising banners, Los Angeles, 1928

Item Overview

Title

Wilshire Boulevard Congregational Church with fundraising banners, Los Angeles, 1928

Architect

Allison, David Clark, 1881-1962
Allison, James Edward, 1870-1955

Date Created

May 1925

Date

1925-05

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Exterior view of the Wilshire Boulevard Congregational Church at Plymouth and Wilshire Boulevards, just after the exterior scaffolding came down. Signs on the church advertised a fundraising effort to acquire donations to complete the construction project: "Save The Tower! $25,000 will do it. Will You Give It?" and "$50,000 Will Save This Church. Have You Given Your Bit for Religion? This Church belongs to Everybody" and "Save The Church In May, $50,000 Needed..." The edifice is now the home of the Wilshire United Methodist Church. The building was designed by the architectural firm Allison and Allison Architects.
Wilshire Boulevard Congregational Church was designed by the architectural firm Allison and Allison Architects. It is located at 4350 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, and is the home of the Wilshire United Methodist Church (10/2012).

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Los Angeles Churches, Wilshire Blvd. Church

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
exterior views

Names

Wilshire United Methodist Church (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

34.06177469350010

Latitude

-118.32354784011800

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Romanesque revival (Architecture)--California--Los Angeles
Churches--California--Guasti
Religion
Culture
Historic buildings--California--Los Angeles
Congregational churches--California--Los Angeles