ecology of absence

Bethlehem Lutheran Church

LOCATION: 2153 Salisbury Street; Hyde Park; Saint Louis, Missouri
DATE OF CONSTRUCTION: 1895
ARCHITECT: Louis Wessbecher
DATE OF ABANDONMENT: 1980's
OWNER: Bethlehem Lutheran Church Congregation

The Bethlehem Luthern Church congregation now meets in a 1920's school building next door to this beautiful church. The congregation wants to raze the old church, and has not kept it maintained for many years.


Photo from 2005 by Yves Marrocchi


Photos from March 18 and July 7, 2005 by Michael R. Allen

     


Images from August 2003 by Michael R. Allen

        
    
    


Photo from 1981 by Jane Porter


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