StNicholas [serial] . ONE TREE Santa Rosa, St. Nicholas : Perhaps the other readers ofNature and Science would like to know somethingabout our church, the First Baptist Church of Santa Rosa,California, which was built from lumber sawn from one tree. It was built in 1873, and the lumber was ordered fromMr. Rufus Murphy, who then had a sawmill at Gurneville,twenty miles from Santa Rosa. The largest redwood treeon the land he was clearing had lost its top, and so was onlya great stump, 140 feet high. He had just cut down thishuge stump when he received the order for materials fort
StNicholas [serial] . ONE TREE Santa Rosa, St. Nicholas : Perhaps the other readers ofNature and Science would like to know somethingabout our church, the First Baptist Church of Santa Rosa,California, which was built from lumber sawn from one tree. It was built in 1873, and the lumber was ordered fromMr. Rufus Murphy, who then had a sawmill at Gurneville,twenty miles from Santa Rosa. The largest redwood treeon the land he was clearing had lost its top, and so was onlya great stump, 140 feet high. He had just cut down thishuge stump when he received the order for materials forthe meeting-house; so he said, Let us fill this order fromthe big tree. This is how the church came to be builtfrom one tree. The log was big enough to furnish all thematerial for the church, even including the shingles and thepews, and to make some lumber besides. The tree sawedup into 78,000 feet of lumber. The building is Gothic in style, finished with massivebuttresses outside, and heavy trusses on the inside. The. THE CHURCH THAT WAS MADE FROM LUMBER IN ONE TREE. main room is 37 x 60 feet, and 300 people can be comfort-ably seated in it. There is a parlor of 30 X 20 feet, capableof seating 80 or 90 people. The pastors study is 14x20feet. There was a steeple 70 feet high which was weakenedby the earthquake, and fell soon after in a high wind. I inclose with this letter two pictures of the church, oneof the outside, made just before the earthquake, and theother of the inside, made several years ago. Since the in-terior view was made, art glass windows have replaced theplain ones shown in the picture, the lighting arrangementshave been changed, and the room repapered and , Lilian Turney.
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