4819 N ARDMORE AVE

4819 N ARDMORE AVE

Milwaukee

Whitefish Bay

1937

2011,2026

house of worship

Early Gothic Revival

Stone Veneer

Willis Leenhouts

No

In 1927, the need for another church in the growing village was recognized by the Milwaukee Council of Churches. In the early 1930s, a group began meeting in private homes. Land was purchased in 1931 at the corner of Hampton Road and Ardmore Avenue for $11,200 for a church site, and the small congregation became known as Ardmore Baptist Church. In September 1933, they held their first service at the nearby non-extant Whitefish Bay Armory. By 1936, the congregation incorporated and renamed as Roundy Memorial Baptist Church, named in tribute to Judson A. Roundy, founder of what is now Roundy’s Supermarkets, an active Baptist who bequested half of his estate to the Wisconsin State Baptist Convention to promote Baptist churches throughout Wisconsin. The congregation’s first pastor was Rev. Ernest Hasselblad. A two-story building was completed by Adam Schmitt and Sons, as designed by Willis Leenhouts, in 1937 for $20,000. A parsonage was built at 4789 N. Woodburn Avenue; and in 1951, a large addition was built to increase the sanctuary’s capacity.

Building permit and records on file at Whitefish Bay Village Hall. Whitefish Bay Historical Research Project. Volume 9. Mimi Bird Collection, Whitefish Bay: Whitefish Bay Public Library Sketch of church in the Milwaukee Journal, 30 May 1937 and short article, "New Church Unit Nears Completion."

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