Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1924-04-27 | Page 27 | Hotel to Enclose Baptist Church

HOTEL TO ENCLOSE BAPTIST NEW YORK YORK April 12 12 W- W A hotel 15 hotel and a d church will wll soon be built around d and over the old Ca churchon Calary y ary Baptist ch church on while West the seventh i seventh street street congregation cong will con con- con continue to sit lit iii their accustomed seats Sunday after Th The contractors ha have hate e announced that the 11 Ings which form the main mair part ot of the he hotel and ali the tho root roof oo can bo be brought into without being with with- out interfering with the use UBO Of the tue auditorium The magnificent auditorium ot of the present church will III remain as a it has been heen since Ince the church was wa built over 70 years ears ago but the tho lh Present gallery a III be he enlarged and a second one constructed so that the setting capacity of the new nest Wing Wing-on church will be Wings on either side of ot me true present church and 12 storie stories Immedi Immedi- Immediately abo above 0 It will III be tie built and leased for operation a as a hotel for Christian people willbe Cost of ot the Improvements will III be about Z 2 1 but It I is expected that the hotel will III turn in enough I lontal to ne tse church to enable It to considerably widen Its scope of activities A radio broadcasting station the largest In tho the world ac ac- ac I cording according to Dr John Roach Roah Strat- Strat StratI Straton Straton Strat-on Strat I on pastor of ot the church will Ill be one of the features of the new beI I building