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Riverside Congregational Church

4-23-2021
Riverside Congregational Church

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Notes

This building on State Street probably doesn’t need an introduction. According to the State of Oregon Inventory of Historic Sites and Buildings, it was built in 1912-13 for $24,000, with a western extension constructed in 1969. It is described as a “two story building of dressed stone construction” with “a gable roof…supported by decorative beams.” They say it has a “stone pediment suggestive of the Northern Baroque Style.”

Category: Downtown Hood River
Tags: church, Riverside Church, State Street

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  1. Wendell

    23rd April 2021 @ 07:12 AM

    Certainly wish we knew what happened to the cannon that sat on the eastern side of this church……

  2. nels

    23rd April 2021 @ 09:48 AM

    And don't bother trying to grow flowers as the ground is rock chips from the building process with a thin layer of dirt on top.

    I wonder if the abutments serve a real purpose or just decoration like the cathedrals.

    It is my understanding that the builders were the same European rock men who built the Old Highway. And they also built several stone in The Dalles as well.

  3. ArthurB

    23rd April 2021 @ 10:32 AM

    Wendell, I am constantly on the lookout for any clue about what happened to the cannon. My guess is WWII scrap drive, but I would like to know for sure. If you recall we had tracked the Civil War vet who fired it every July 4 until he was too old to do it safely.

  4. nels

    25th April 2021 @ 09:10 AM

    Isn't that a Percy Mansur painting? Rather matches the ones up in the middle school.

  5. ArthurB

    25th April 2021 @ 10:27 AM

    Thanks Ellen. I got the date from the SHPO inventory, which isn't always accurate. I believe nels is correct about the painting being a Percy Mansur.

  6. Norma

    25th April 2021 @ 10:47 AM

    Percy Mansur also did the painting at the Elks Club.

  7. Ellen Heltzel

    25th April 2021 @ 08:12 PM

    There was a new wing put on the west side of the church before 1969, maybe a decade earlier. It contained a fellowship hall and kitchen on the top floor and classrooms below. The focal point in the fellowship hall was a large painting or mural of Mt. Hood that I believe is still there.

  8. Dan K

    26th April 2021 @ 04:02 PM

    I know the west wing was added before 1969 because I was in Boy Scouts and out troop met there.. Think I started Scouts about 1966 or 67 and the wing was there.

  9. Ellen Shapley

    27th April 2021 @ 01:54 PM

    Warren Weber, a Portland modernist architect, (1912 – 1982) designed this addition which opened in 1956. He designed a number of churches around Oregon

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