Start Work of Erecting Nazarene
Church
All Material Being Purchased
From Local Concerns;
Will Be Ready for Use Last of
October
Submitted by
Peggy A. Wells
Work has been resumed on the new Nazarene church
and will be pushed rapidly. It will be ready for use by the last of October
if no delays are necessary. Almost all the material for the building is
being bought of Ironton firms, including steel, lumber, brick and cement.
The steel beams and columns are being prepared now by a local firm and
will be erected next week.
While the completed structure calls for full basement
or ground floor, with auditorium and galleries above, yet the plans has
been from the first to build only the first unit of the structure at present,
completing the auditorium and galleries later. This plan will be carried
out, and the first floor, which upon final completion of the building
will be occupied entirely by Sunday school class rooms, will be used temporarily
for both Sunday school and regular church services. And even this arrangement,
according to Rev. H. C. Litle, pastor of the church, will afford room
for a Sunday school of around 300. When the complete structure is finished
ample room and equipment will be provided for a Sunday school of about
1000 with an auditorium for preaching services accommodating more than
500 including galleries.
The building is of beautiful face brick, and although
the building committee has definitely avoided the erection of an elaborate
edifice, yet the structure will be not only commodious, and well equipped
throughout, but is of beautiful design, and the Nazarene congregation
rightly feels that it will be not only a great blessing to them, but also
a real asset to the city, since it is located in one of the best residential
sections of the city, and will be one of the commodious church buildings
in the entire southern section of the city.
Rev. Charles A. Gibson, of Columbus, the superintendent
of the Ohio district of the Nazarene church will conduct services each
night for one week, when the building is ready for use, and as he is reported
to be a preacher of marked ability, it is believed that large crowds may
be expected from the beginning.
During the building operations, all services of
the church are conducted in the Eastern Theatre.
Ironton Tribune, 26 August 1932, Friday, Page
7.
