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McCormick Theological Seminary is a private Presbyterian seminary in Chicago, Illinois. As of 2023, it shares a campus with the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and Catholic Theological Union, in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago.
The Association of Presbyterian Colleges and Universities is a private, not-for-profit organization of colleges and universities associated with the Presbyterian Church (USA), a Mainline Protestant Christian religious denomination.
The Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago was formed on February 12, 1871, by the merger of Westminster Presbyterian Church and North Presbyterian Church. [2] The combined congregation dedicated a new church building on Sunday, October 8, 1871. The Great Chicago Fire began later that day and destroyed the young congregation's new sanctuary.
The Church of the Covenant (Euclid Avenue Presbyterian Church) is a historic church on Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio's University Circle. It is a Presbyterian congregation and a part of the Presbytery of the Western Reserve. [2] It was built in 1911 to designs created by architects Cram and Ferguson.
Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago: 1871 founded 1912–14 built 1975 NRHP-listed 126 East Chestnut Street: Chicago, Illinois: Gothic Revival Second Presbyterian Church of Chicago: 1842 founded 1874 built 1974 NRHP-listed
The First Presbyterian Church of Chicago had its beginning in the arrival of a ship off the shore of Lake Michigan near the mouth of the Chicago River on May 12, 1833. Aboard the ship was the nucleus of Chicago's first Presbyterian society, as well as the man destined to be its founder, Jeremiah Porter, a young missionary.
Many wealthy Chicago residents attended Second Presbyterian, including members of the George Pullman, Silas B. Cobb, Timothy Blackstone, and George Armour families. These were men who moved to Chicago from New England or New York State in the mid-nineteenth century to make their fortunes and build a new metropolis on the prairie.
The interior featured a gallery suspended by iron rods, reportedly a first in a Cleveland public building, as well as the city's first pipe organ. Because of its building materials, First Presbyterian was called "the Stone Church," and as other stone churches were erected in the area, it became known as the "Old Stone Church." [3]