First Church of Christ, Scientist, Albion Avenue (Fairmont, Minnesota)

This article is about the building at 205 Albion Avenue; for the building at 222 East Blue Earth Avenue, see Red Rock Center for the Arts

First Church of Christ, Scientist 205 Albion Avenue Fairmont, Minnesota

General information
Architectural style	Colonial Revival
Town or city	205 Albion Avenue Fairmont, Minnesota
Country	United States
Completed	1937
Technical details
Structural system	redbrick front elevation with steeple; wooden rear elevation
Design and construction
Architect	Charles Draper Faulkner

The former First Church of Christ, Scientist located at 205 Albion Avenue (between Tilden and Forest streets), is an historic Christian Science church building in Fairmont, Minnesota, which was designed in the Colonial Revival style by noted Chicago architect, Charles Draper Faulkner,who was renowned for the churches and other buildings that he designed in the United States and Japan. He designed over 33 Christian Science church buildings and wrote a book called Christian Science Church Edifices which features this church as well as many others. . Built in 1937 to replace the church's previous building at 222 East Blue Earth Avenue, its steepled redbrick front elevation looks west to Wards Park and beyond that to Sisseton Lake. The church is no longer in existence and the building is now the Lakeview Funeral Home. ^[1][2][3]

References

1. Faulkner, Charles Draper, Christian Science Church Edifices second edition, 1946, Chicago: self published, frontispiece, pp, 76, 382, 384, & 386
2. History of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Fairmont, Minnesota
3. Lakeview Funeral Home website