Name/Title
Baust Lutheran ChurchEntry/Object ID
1958.740.005Description
Print, photographic. Baust Lutheran Church. B/W photo of a two-story red brick church with a large fenced in graveyard in front of it. The front of the first floor has a door with a small windowed area above it in the center with a single window on either side of it. The windows and the windowed area of the door are rounded. The left side of the first floor has two more rounded top windows with a door exactly like the one on the front in between them. The front of the second floor has three rounded windows across it. There is a large white circle above the center window and a small white circular vent above that. There are three more rounded windows along the left side of the second floor. The corners of the church protrude from the rest of the building and look almost column-like. A white picket fence wraps around the front of the church and then extends outward in both directions to go around the enormous graveyard. There are headstones of many different sizes and shapes in the graveyard. There is are two evergreen bushes, one on the far right side and one on the far front end. Two other small trees are growing in there too. A dirt road runs along the other side of the picket fence closest to the photographer. The photo is mounted on a piece of black board. On front in black ink "Old Baust Church". On back in black ink "Mrs. Harry K. Myers - donor." In blue ink stamped "P.L. Weaver, Hanover". Overall size is 8" x 10"; image size is 5.5" x 9"Acquisition
Accession
1958.740Source or Donor
Myers,Acquisition Method
GiftGeneral Notes
Note
Original deed of gift reads "18 photographs"Note
The church is named for Valentine and Maria Baust who donated the land for it's construction. Originally a Union Church for both Lutheran and Reformed (now United Church of Christ) congregations, the brick building pictured here was constructed ca. 1815 and replaced an earlier log church from 18th century. This brick building was torn down in 1906 and replaced with another brick church building which still stands today at 2950 Old Taneytown Road near Tyrone, MD.