History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . edifice, on thesouthwest corner of Main Cross and Union Streets, where the \m LUTHERAN CHURCH ON UNION STREET (THIRD BUILDING) SOMERSET, PA. Somerset Trust Companys building now stands. This was dur-ing the pastorate of Rev. Charles Witmer. Why the substantial,and then commodious, brick structure on Union Street wasabandoned and a new church built at this time, is not apparent,except that it was considered far out, in t
History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . edifice, on thesouthwest corner of Main Cross and Union Streets, where the \m LUTHERAN CHURCH ON UNION STREET (THIRD BUILDING) SOMERSET, PA. Somerset Trust Companys building now stands. This was dur-ing the pastorate of Rev. Charles Witmer. Why the substantial,and then commodious, brick structure on Union Street wasabandoned and a new church built at this time, is not apparent,except that it was considered far out, in those days of no streetlighting and poor pavements. The new building was used foreighteen years, when, just as the indebtedness on the same hadbeen cancelled, it was destroyed in the fire of 1X72, during thefirst year of Rev. Whetstones pastorate. A new location was sought, and the second lot west of the746 TRINITY, SOMERSET public square, on the south side of Main Street, was secured,where the present imposing edifice, the fifth church building ofthe congregation, now stands. The lot, as originally secured,was sixty-six feet wide and 264 feet deep, extending to Patriot. TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH, SOMERSET. PA. Street. Immediately 132 feet was sold from the rear and tenfeet from the west side, leaving a lot 132 by ^6 feet. The corner-stone of the present edifice was laid on October 13,1873. The basement was first finished and used as a place ofworship for nearly four years, when the entire building was 747 SOMERSET CONFERENCE completed and dedicated on July 8, 1877. The sermon on theday of dedication was preached by Rev. F. W. Conrad, ,of Philadelphia. The building is a two-story brick structure in the Romanesquestyle of architecture, with art glass memorial windows. Theoriginal dimensions were 45 by 91 feet, with a spire 150 feet inheight, containing a bell weighing 2,000 pounds. The cost ofthe building was $21,000. This churchly edifice stands as amonument to Rev. A. M. Whet
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