PSU’s Parking Structure One being built in 1964

"Parking Structure One at PSU being built in 1964.

That’s SW Broadway there on the lower right.

No idea what that church building is across SW 6th"

 

Ken says: "1890s plat map shows it as an Methodist Episcopal church at Sixth and Hall, northeast corner."

 

and

 

"Rev. A.C. Fairchild's congregation originally built the Hall Street M.E. church at Sixth and Hall in 1869, when the site had to be cleared of fir trees to build a sanctuary.

 

In 1897 the congregation was unable to keep up its mortgage payments after the financial panic earlier in the decade.

 

Rabbi Max Levin's Congregation Talmud Torah leased the property beginning in 1897. The synagogue building, designed by Otto Kleeman, was built in 1911 (MO 10-4-1897; 5-7-1911)."

 

Jim says: "That church was not long for the world in 1964. I think the Ondine (PSU's first dormitory building) went up on that corner the following year."

 

Brendan notes: "So the 5th Avenue Cinema would then be on the site of that building just behind the church. I thought it was older than 1964."

 

Michael says: "Ondine was built in 1967. 5th Avenue Cinema is all part of that complex."

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