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Christ Church Lutheran

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Christ Church Lutheran

Site overview

Designed and constructed in 1948-49, Christ Church Lutheran holds national significance as one of the most celebrated works by Eliel Saarinen. Through his adept use of materials, proportion, scale, and light, with Christ Church Lutheran Saarinen created a building having great dramatic effect and architectural impact, yet one that also retained a human scale and possessed a feeling of serenity and repose. Historian and Saarinen biographer Albert Christ-Janer has observed that Christ Church is considered by many to be his masterwork. Remarkably, the church complex also includes an addition designed in 1962 under the direction of Eliel Saarinen’s son, Eero. The sensitive design of the Education Wing respects the earlier portions of the assemblage, and stands as the complementary fulfillment of Saarinen Sr.’s original concept for the Christ Church Lutheran commission.

Primary classification

Religious

Designations

U.S. National Register of Historic Places, listed on June 20, 2001 | U.S. National Historic Landmark, listed on January 16, 2009

How to Visit

Open to the public

Location

3244 34th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN, 55406

Country

US
More visitation information

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Designer(s)

Eero Saarinen

Architect

Nationality

American, Finnish

Eliel Saarinen

Architect

Nationality

Finnish, American

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Newsletter, chapter, Preservation, historic preservation, docomomo

May 10, 2018

Related chapter

Minnesota

Commission

25 September 1948

Completion

4 December 1949

References

https://www.nps.gov/nhl/find/statelists/mn/ChristChurch.pdf
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