Property Record
5655 N LAKE DR
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH |
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| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 9313 |
| Location (Address): | 5655 N LAKE DR |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| City: | Whitefish Bay |
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| Year Built: | 1941 |
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| Survey Date: | 20111980 |
| Historic Use: | house of worship |
| Architectural Style: | Late Gothic Revival |
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| Wall Material: | Limestone |
| Architect: | Carl Liebert |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | 1980- LANCET WINDOWS,TUDORARCHED ENTRY 2011- It wasn’t until 1931, that Episcopalians in Whitefish Bay organized another church. In that year, Christ Episcopal Church started as a mission and a small, non-extant chapel with capacity for 200 people was built by Val Schramka at the corner of Beaumont Avenue and Consaul Place, the current location of the Silver Spring Masonic Lodge No. 337. The original chapel was designed to function as the sanctuary and parish hall until a larger church could be constructed. In 1935, a rectory was built to the east of the church, but was moved to 4725 N. Oakland Avenue in 1978 to expand parking for Sendik’s Fruit Market. Plans for a larger church complex began. Land across from the chapel was purchased in 1940, and the current church building was constructed in 1941. The old chapel was retained and used as a parish hall. The local Masons began renting the old chapel for its meeting hall until they purchased it from the church by 1948; it was demolished for construction of their lodge in 1964. Refer to Chapter 9 Social and Political Movements for further information on the Masons. The initial expansion plans for the Christ Episcopal Church complex were carried out with the construction of a parish house completed in 1948; a classroom, sacristy, and office addition in 1952; and the enlargement of the sanctuary, new parish hall, and a Columbarium, a mausoleum for the ashes of those cremated, in 1956. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Whitefish Bay Historical Research Project. Volume 9. Mimi Bird Collection, Whitefish Bay: Whitefish Bay Public Library |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |