Area less than one acre NRHP Reference # 76000716 Phone +1 309-343-5145 | Built 1897–98 Architectural style Romanesque architecture Added to NRHP 30 September 1976 | |
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Location Central Sq., Galesburg, Illinois Address Public Square, Galesburg, IL 61401, USA Similar Knox College Old Main, Carl Sandburg State Hist, Galesburg Railroad Museum, Discovery Depot Children, Galesburg Cottage Hospital | ||
The Central Congregational Church is a historic church on Central Square in Galesburg, Illinois. The church was built from 1897 to 1898 to serve Galesburg's newly united Congregational church. Galesburg's two congregational churches formed in the 1850s after separating from the town's Presbyterian church; the two churches united in 1895 after one church began to collapse during a service. Galesburg architect C.E. Gottschalk designed the church in the Richardsonian Romanesque style; his design features a bell tower with a pyramidal roof, numerous turrets, a 22-foot (6.7 m) wide stained glass rose window above the entrance, and detailed stonework. The brown sandstone used to construct the church was imported from Marquette, Michigan. The church's bell was formed from the bells used in the two Congregational churches before their union. In 1912, the church acquired an organ built by the M. P. Moller Company.
The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 30, 1976.