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Eudaimonist · 01-15-2003, 12:09 PM

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Originally posted by Bill Snedden
I'm assuming you mean the one in Oak Park, IL.

Yes, that's the one I meant.

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The Unity Temple in Oak Park was, I believe, one of the first churches Wright built, and his conception was exceedingly humanistic as Wright noted in his Autobiography

Thanks for that quote! I had not heard that story before. Very interesting.

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I've always been attracted to grand churches, not necessarily for their religious meaning, but because they represent the physical embodiment of essentially human ideals like Truth, Beauty, Purpose, etc. Even if their builders were mistaken as to the source of those ideals, their constructions still stand as monuments to the power of those ideals and the human spirit.

Well said. I think people benefit from seeing ideals in concrete form. To see an ideal as something other than a vague abstraction in the mind is to experience that ideal as capable of existing in the world. It can lend one the confidence that one can manifest that ideal in one's own life.

Strawberry · 01-15-2003, 12:39 PM

The Wenceslaus Cathedral in Prague is gorgous. Also, a couple of cathedrals in Salzburg are pretty stunning, although almost any old building in Prauge or Salzburg is beautiful, so I suppose that goes without saying.

Puck · 01-15-2003, 05:01 PM

I love the little old country churches in the American south. One room, made of heart pine, with heart pine benches. So simple and...honest?

My Daughter was married in one, and we rang the bell after with the old rope. There is a smell to old heart pine buildings that enchants me. My own home is over a hundred years old, made of heart pine, and I can smell that smell when I go out into the 'tool room'.

Hail · 01-15-2003, 05:57 PM

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01-15-2003, 12:39 PM	#22
Strawberry Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Lancaster, PA/Toronto, ON, Canada Posts: 627	The Wenceslaus Cathedral in Prague is gorgous. Also, a couple of cathedrals in Salzburg are pretty stunning, although almost any old building in Prauge or Salzburg is beautiful, so I suppose that goes without saying.

01-15-2003, 05:01 PM	#23
Puck Veteran Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: A middle aged body. Posts: 3,459	I love the little old country churches in the American south. One room, made of heart pine, with heart pine benches. So simple and...honest? My Daughter was married in one, and we rang the bell after with the old rope. There is a smell to old heart pine buildings that enchants me. My own home is over a hundred years old, made of heart pine, and I can smell that smell when I go out into the 'tool room'.

01-15-2003, 05:57 PM	#24
Hail Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Canada Posts: 60	-

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