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The front of the nave of the Westminster Presbyterian Church at Thirteenth and N Streets is visible in this June 16, 1928, photograph. Below the centered tapestry sits the church’s choir loft and 15,000 dollar pipe organ, a four manual echo variety with 2,035 pipes and a 20-tube chime. The structure’s tower was also built with an echo organ. The organ, furniture and other contents of the church were almost lost due to ebbing membership (a drop of 310 between 1931 and 1936), plummeting property values, and income during the Great Depression, forcing the congregation to take out a second mortgage. But, by 1936, and after a reevaluation of church indebtedness, creditors, including Bank of America, substantially dropped the required payments on the first trust of deed. By 1945, and after several fundraisers, Westminster was in the financial clear.
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