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First Congregational Church (Colorado Springs)

El Paso County

As one of the best examples of the Richardsonian Romanesque style in Colorado Springs, the 1889 building reflects the style in its broad roof planes, square tower crowned with a pyramidal roof, monumental massing, and rock-faced masonry. 

A vieddw of the gable roofed church with tall white pyramidal cone in the center and smaller one on tower in front. On either side stand trees.

First Congregational Church

Designed by Henry Rutgers Marshall, a prominent eastern architect, high artistic values and skilled craftsmanship are reflected in the variety of stained glass windows, immense stone columns with picked finish, interior trussed ceiling, and ornate lantern tower.  Founded in 1874, the early history of the congregation was closely associated with the development of Colorado College.

National Register

Address

20 E. Vrain St., Colorado Springs

Site Number

5EP.631