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cites retirement of its longtime pastor, the Rev. Benjamin E. Lewis, in 1994 as the beginning of the church's decline. This also coincided with demographic changes in the surrounding
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Because of the church's long significance in the
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style. It was completed in 1928. The building features a basilican plan with arched windows. The exterior has variegated brick and a
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Due to changing demographics in the neighborhood, the church membership declined. It held its final service on
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Revised regulations that extended on-street parking restrictions to
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to camp out in the church's auditorium. The church distributed clothes and food to people in the neighborhood during the
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Many in the congregation were active during the civil rights era. The church allowed people attending the August 1963
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and other intellectuals in 1897. It held its inaugural address in the church.
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