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Twin Tower Sanctuary

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
88002235

Added to NRHP
  
16 November 1988

Built
  
1898

Opened
  
1898

Twin Tower Sanctuary

Location
  
9967 W. 144th St., Orland Park, Illinois

Architectural style
  
Queen Anne style architecture

Twin Tower Sanctuary (Old Sanctuary of the United Methodist Church) is a historic Methodist church building at 9967 W. 144th Street in Orland Park, Illinois. The church was completed in 1898, six years after Orland Park was founded, to serve the city's large Methodist population. Architect William Arthur Bennet, who later became well known for his Prairie School works, designed the church in the Queen Anne style. The north side of the church is flanked by the two hexagonal towers that give the church its name. The interior of the church has a Sullivanesque patterned tin ceiling; according to Louis Sullivan scholar Tim Samuelson, it is the best-preserved example of a Sullivanesque tin ceiling in the country.

The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 16, 1988.

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Twin Tower Sanctuary Wikipedia