AKA: Christian Science Church, Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, CA

Structure Type: built works - religious structures - churches

Designers: Wallner, Hans, and Company, Architects (firm); Hans H. Wallner (architect)

Dates: constructed 1928-1929

Avalon, CA

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Santa Catalina Island

According to a contemporary newspaper story, Wallner patterned this Christian Science Church on an etching of the Franciscan church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy. An auditorium was on the upper level with a Sunday school and reading room on a lower floor reached by an exterior stairway.

PCAD id: 10084