Birmingham Churches and Their Cornerstones 28
Shades Valley Lutheran Church is a classic modern suburban church of the 1950s or 1960s. This building type is well studied in Gretchen Townsend Buggeln, The Suburban Church: Modernism and Community in Postwar America. It was founded in 1951 and its cornerstone is dated 1963. It is part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and located at 720 Shades Creek Parkway.
Read this first post for more on this series on Birmingham churches and their cornerstones.
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[…] its current colonial-revival sanctuary in 1963. Like several other buildings of its day including Shades Valley Luthern Church, its education build was erected with exterior […]
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[…] its current colonial-revival sanctuary in 1963. Like several other buildings of its day including Shades Valley Luthern Church, its education build was erected with exterior […]
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