| Church seated 450, chapel (Sunday School room) seated an additional 175 people. Vestibule: 10 feet by 16 feet, floor laid with encaustic tile, stained glass windows on each side; entrance to auditorium: topped by semi-circular panel filled in with tracery, a representation of Christ painted on the glass; platform at north end of auditorium directly opposite Asylum Avenue entrance, for pulpit and baptistery; pulpit: light and movable desk; baptistry: arched alcove, white marble coping, and around arch a place for appropriate passage from scripture; small library room to the left of the platform; organ: manufactured by S. L. G. Crane; basement: infant department of the Sunday School, dressing rooms, bathroom, and other facilities. Additional details: audience room and chapel separated by a partition behind the platform and baptistery; the partition could be raised or lowered like windows when a single space was required; the platform with pulpit and baptistery was directly opposite main entrance from Asylum Avenue; the baptistery was intended to be left open, but a cover provided; the baptistery alcove designed with a side door that allowed candidates for baptism to enter and exit without being seen; candidate for baptism was visible only when standing in the baptistry. Decorations: ceiling: delicate bluish gray; walls of church: wainscoted, from wainscoting to cornice painted light chocolate; arches relieved with lines of bright color; pews, pulpit, furniture: generally speaking, made from chestnut; pew cushions and pulpit furniture upholstery crimson; carpets: neat drab pattern; Sunday school room has settees with reversible backs, desk, chairs, etc. of dark wood. Lighting: church, natural light provided by a group of four windows in each end of the transept and by other windows on the sides, glazed with stained “cathedral glass,” and two large reflectors placed in the ceiling; Sunday school room, two smaller reflectors; reflectors furnished by United States Reflector Company. |