PCAD - Throop, Amos G., Memorial Unitarian-Universalist Church #1, Pasadena, CA

Exterior view of the Throop Universalist Church #1, Pasadena, c. 1890. From "Two Churches in Pasadena," History, Los Angeles County Blog, accessed 01/10/2019

Postcard of the Throop Universalist Church #1, Pasadena, CA, c. 1905. From the author's collection, postcard by M. Reider, Publisher, Los Angeles, CA, Card #4546

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East Walnut Street and North Raymond Street
Pasadena, CA 91103

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Some sources located the church at the corner of Chestnut Street and Raymond Avenue.

Overview

This church served Pasadena's Universalist congregation from 1890 until 1923, when a new church was erected at 300 South Los Robles Avenue.

Building History

The Pasadena architectural firm of Strange and Gottshalk designed this $40,000, timber-framed church, done in the Romanesque Revival Style. Amos G. Throop, paid nearly the entire cost of the church, and so the congregation named the building in his honor. (See Ann Scheid, Downtown Pasadena's Early Architecture, [Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing Company, 2006], p. 46.)

Demolition

The Throop Universalist Church #1 was razed.

PCAD id: 5728

Throop, Amos G., Memorial Unitarian-Universalist Church #1, Pasadena, CA (1890) demolished