Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-06-09 | Page 36 | First Two of St. Paul's Chruch Unit are Completed Rectory and Parish House Opende during This Week

First Two of St. Paul's Church Unit Are Completed xx h n . n n u a u n Rectory and Parish House Opened During This Week NEW home of St. Paul's Episcopal church, distinctively ecclesiastical in general effect Parish house, with facade wrought in rock, being temporarily used as church until regular house of worship is erected. Other structure is rectory, to be formally dedicated Tuesday. "A : 'i W I vv s-: V viil k dtffr t?i V J 1 : pleted, will be equipped with billiard tables. This flour now serves as a vestment room for the members of the choir. Beneath the mezzanine are lockers lock-ers ami shower baths, also a temporary tempor-ary kitchen. The maiu parish hall, which has a seating capacity of more than ."ill persons, per-sons, will ultimately be dedicated to social so-cial purposes of the parish, as well as a Sunday school. Its lofty ceiling is supported bv immense open timber trusses. The room at present is equipped with the furnituro of tho old church, abandoned after services last Kaster Sunday. To the west of the choir loft is a large room designod for kitchen purposes. The facade of the parish' house and office is beautifully wrought stonework of a severely Tudo"r style, with rectangular rectan-gular windows, narrow ' panels aud leaded diamond panes. The. cloister itself it-self is a distinctly ecclesiastical feature, fea-ture, with rough 'interior walls, flattened flat-tened pointed arch, tracoried mullions and its flagged floor suggesting tho essential es-sential style of the future church. The, entire front is composed of a series of casements ami windows, all the woodwork wood-work being toned in soft gray. , When the. old church was abandoned the great bells, was removed and has been hung in a '-timber belfry at the back of the parish house. Both parish buildings will be thrown open to complete inspection at a church reception Tuesday evening. This function is open to all members, tho parish and their friends. Comprising the building committee of St. Paul's parish are George M. Alar-stall, Alar-stall, chairman; James L. Yundt, Clar-' I enee B. Kaybould, Thomas A. Piu(w D. U:. Blossom, T. C. Gibson. second story. The windows are divided divid-ed into narrow panels, narrow rectangular rectan-gular panes and transoms. Traversing, the entire west side of the parish house is a cloister which reaches the main entrance at the south end. From this vestibule wide stairs lead to the parish house proper, which for the present is being used for divine di-vine services. The lower floor, which is a high basement, with lofty ceiling and hardwood floors, was primarily designed de-signed for recreation and elub purposes. It is already well equipped with gymnasium gym-nasium paraphernalia, but, through necessity, ne-cessity, is also being used for the purposes pur-poses of the various bodies and groups of young people of the parish. At the north end hangs a mezzanine floor, which, when the new church is eom- Projected Group Is ' to Be One of Handsomest in Entire West ON a terraced bench rising six feet above the roadway at Ninth East and Third South streets, tho building association of St. Paul's Episcopal parish has erected two largo buildirjgs, constituting the beginning of a group of church structures. struc-tures. Tho buildings are the rectory and parish house, or hall. During the present w-eek these structures are to be formally opened. and for this function a special program has been arranged by the vestry. The completed structures occupy the northeast angle of the property, ' the rectory running along tho north section of the area while the parish hoilse carries car-ries some length along the east side. Eventually there, will be three edifices edi-fices on the property, a regularly dedicated dedi-cated church occupying the south section sec-tion fronting on Third South street. The group will form three sides of a court opening on Ninth street. The group, when completed in entirety, entire-ty, will .be one of the best equipped, most beautiful and most ecclesiastically correct units of church edifices in the west. The style of architecture follows closely and consistently English fashion at its most admired period; the early Tudor-Gothic of about the year 1500. The rectory, obviously a - dwelling, harmonizes in construction with the parish house and the church-to-be. It I is characterized by cement and timber work. There is a slightly overhanging