Located in the
Central West End at 4501 Westminster Place,
the 2nd Presbyterian Church was designed in
1900 by Theodore Link in the same Romanesque
style he used when designing St. Louis's
Union Station.
The present
site located at Westminster Place and Taylor
Avenue is the third location of Second
Presbyterian Church which had been founded in
1838. From 1840 to 1870 it was housed in a
Greek Revival structure at Fifth (Broadway)
and Walnut Streets. In 1870 it relocated to
the western end of fashionable Lucas Place at
Seventeenth Street.
This is the
church in which Shadrach Pilcher's (Joshua's
brother) great-granddaughter, Mabel Moore
married Samuel E. Jones in 1902. Mabel took
this photograph with her "old
Kodak."
To see a view
of the church interior and its beautiful
architectual design, see the Built in St.
Louis link at bottom.
