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Education Wing

The Education building was added in the 1930s, a particularly ambitious building project since it occurred during the Great Depression. This addition created several classrooms for Sunday School, a recreation area for the senior high youth, and a large Activity Room for children, which was recently remodeled during which the Nursery was moved to this area from the third level. The Education Building also houses the church office and several meeting rooms, as well as a large dining room and kitchen on the lower level. Over the years the church has been a host for several neighborhood and community service organizations, including Head Start and Habitat for Humanity. Currently the main office for Metropolitan Churches United (MCU) is housed here.

The Portrait Lounge, an elegant wood-paneled room, was known as "the Ladies Parlor" when it was first constructed, and there is also a second parlor, now called "the Upper Room" directly above it. The Portrait Lounge is used for the Adult Christian Forum meetings on Sunday mornings and the Upper Room is used by the Session, the elected governing board of the church. There have been only eleven pastors in the life of this congregation, and it has been a tradition to commission a portrait of each pastor to honor their service; these portraits now adorn both the Portrait Lounge and the Upper Room.

A Hospitality Room was added during the most recent capital campaign in 2006, adjacent to Niccolls Hall, during which the congregation raised money to replace the air conditioning system, refurbish the floors and roof, repair damaged glass panes, relocate the church office, renovate the Activity Room, and strengthen the building endowment.



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