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Honest Materials. The church form most suited to worship varies greatly in the minds of U.S. churchmen. It ranges from such early classics as Carpenter Lavius Fillmore's First Congregational Church in Bennington, Vt., derived from an 18th century American builder's handbook adapting the designs of Sir Christopher Wren, to the asymmetrical, aspiring structures of Frank Lloyd Wright, whose intention, in churches like Redding, Calif.'s soon-to-be-built Pilgrim Congregational Church, was to create a wholly new and American architecture. Today the right to use materials naturally and unadorned (as Wright would have them...
...this liturgical movement has come a demand for the altar-centered church. In 1942 Roman Catholic St. Mark's in Burlington, Vt. experimented with placing the sanctuary with altar at the crossing of nave and transepts, thus making it visible from three sides. In 1948 the Episcopalians at St. Clement's in Alexandria, Va. placed the altar facing banks of pews. Rector Darby Wood Betts argued that "the Church is first and foremost a family called into being by its Father which is God. Therefore we sit facing one another, rather than looking at the back...
Died. Electra Havemeyer Webb, 72, founder of the Webb Gallery of American Art (TIME, Aug. 15) in Shelburne, Vt., which houses 200 American masterworks (John Singleton Copley, Winslow Homer) in a colonial-furnished museum reached by a covered bridge; of a brain hemorrhage; in Burlington. Mrs. Webb was the daughter of the Henry O. Havemeyers, who were bemused by their daughter's interest in Americana, since they themselves had amassed a multimillion-dollar collection of European masters...
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