Image of the Month for December 2007

The Universalist Society (now the Unitarian Universalist Church) of Peoria, Illinois, was organized on May 3, 1843. From 1912 to 1963, it was known as the First Universalist Church. This building was dedicated May 28, 1911, enlarged in 1919 and 1962, and razed in 2005.

For more information, see The Sesquicentennial History of the Universalist-Unitarian Church of Peoria, 1843-1993. Peoria: Word Publishing, 1993. [Detail of postcard postmarked September 3, 1918: bMS 349/1. This postcard was included in the library's project to digitize postcards of Unitarian and Universalist church buildings; for more information, see the library's digital collections page about this project.]

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These images, often buried deep in our collections, are selected by Clifford Wunderlich; please address corrections to him.