Name/Title
Kriders Lutheran ChurchEntry/Object ID
1957.682.004Description
Print, photographic. Kriders Lutheran Church, Westminster. B/W photo of a two story brick church. There are two entrances. One on the front and one on the left side. The front has a door in the middle of the first floor and tall, rectangular windows with rounded tops on either side. There are three of these same windows on the second floor with a circular vent above them and a consistent white pediment that goes all the way around the church at this level. The left side has a door in the center of the first floor with the rectangular/rounded windows on either side. There are three of the same windows on the second floor on this side too. Both doors have stone piled steps leading up to them. The photo is mounted on a thin piece of brown board. On back in black ink "Mrs. Maggie Kane - donor". In blue ink "(1)" In pencil "Kriders Church". Overall size: 10" x 8"; photo: 9.25" x 7.5"Acquisition
Accession
1957.682Source or Donor
Kane, MargaretAcquisition Method
GiftGeneral Notes
Note
This two-story brick church was built in 1809 to replace an earlier log building constructed in 1763. The brick church was funded by a lottery. The building was a union church, serving both Lutheran and Reformed congregations. A lightning strike in 1889 rendered the building untenable, necessitating its demolition. Salvageable materials from the demolished church were divided between the two congregations which decided to build their own separate buildings. The Lutheran congregation incorporated the old cornerstone from the 1809 church into the foundation of the new St. Benjamin's Lutheran Church still standing at 700 Krider's Cemetery Road. The Reformed congregation, now Kriders United Church of Christ, incorporated the 1809 “Benjamin’s Kerch” stone above the front door of their new church still standing at 208 Kriders Church Road. The original log and brick union churches were located within the grounds of the cemetery between the two 1890 church buildings.