New Tabernacle Baptist Church Nomination
I was hired by the University City Historical Society to write a Philadelphia Register of Historic Places nomination for the historic New Tabernacle Baptist Church, designed by Frank Watson in 1896-7. The Philadelphia Historical Commission voted unanimously to add the church to the register in 2020.
New Tabernacle Baptist Church (now Christ Community Church) in 2019
Undated drawing of New Tabernacle Baptist Church (Historical Society of Pennsylvania)
Frank Watson's Specifications for New Tabernacle Baptist Church, ca. 1896 (Historical Society of Pennsylvania)
Chestnut Street streetscape, west of 40th Street (2019)
Undated photograph of New Tabernacle Baptist Church, likely taken after completion ca. 1897 (Historical Society of Pennsylvania)