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The U.M.P.A. Church is in an unusual and distinctive location. |
Cornerstone A is at the UMPA Healing Temple Church (above) south of Front Street on Clinton Avenue, just before the NJT underpass.
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The cornerstone of the rebuilt Crescent Avenue was quarried in the Holy Land. |
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Cornerstone C is on the Main Post Office. |
An ambitious man with an interesting career (see here), McAdoo's financial misadventures led him to New York City where he met Francis Pemberton, son of the Confederate Civil War general. He was instrumental in finishing the Hudson River rail tunnels which are now the PATH system in 1908, and as Secretary of the Treasury under Woodrow Wilson avoided having the United States fall into a depression on the eve of World War I by closing the New York Stock Exchange for four months.
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This medallion is not really a cornerstone. I am clueless about the representation (a Revolutionary War figure?) and its connection with the temple of commerce. |
Where shall we go next week?
- Hidden Plainfield: "More cornerstones" -- All comments and guesses have been posted.
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5 comments:
Always informative, Dan. Thanks for telling us where the Park Baptist church was located. I have never seen a picture of it on its triangular lot at 9th street, or rather Prospect and Park. The First Baptist church, on the other hand, looks quite solid and imposing in the pictures I have seen. I think you showed us one picture of it when you reported on the renovations to the old Sears building.
@ 7:33 AM -- I've seen pictures of Park Avenue Baptist church on the Plainfield Library's photography archive -- think it was postcards. check it out.
Meanwhile, Wendell Woods, a friend who is music minister at Shiloh Baptist Church recently posted this tidbit on his Facebook page:
"An interesting, and perhaps little known fact about Plainfield: There is a common hymn sung in many protestant churches entitled "Nothing But the Blood." It was composed by Robert Lowry. Dr. Lowry was a pastor of the then Park Avenue Baptist Church (now the historic First Park BC) in Plainfield. I noted as I was scrolling through that the actual tune to this great hymn is PLAINFIELD, named after our gracious city - also composed by Dr. Lowry. It's good to know that the city of Plainfield has and continues to inspire and positively impact society!"
More is available about Lowry here
http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/blowry3.html
and here
http://www.songtime.com/hymn/hymn0405.htm
May I use a the photograph of the Presbyterian Church cornerstone in a blog post about its longtime pastor, John James Moment? I plan to provide a full citation, including the URL of your blog post.
Kenneth Taylor
Athens, GA
Mr. Taylor, help yourself. Regards, Dan
Thank you.
Kenneth Taylor
http://neatnik2009.wordpress.com/2013/10/26/feast-of-john-james-moment-may-20/
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