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Title: Wayfarers' Chapel Portuguese Bend, California
Contributor: Watson, George E. (photographer)
Wright, Lloyd, 1890-1978 (architect)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1956
Contributing Institution: Palos Verdes Library District
Collection: Postcard Collection
Rights Information: Electronically digitized by the Palos Verdes Library District from the Palos Verdes Library Local History Room Photo Collection. Copyright status must be investigated before publishing or commercial use. To obtain permission and images for publication purposes please contact the Palos Verdes Library District.
Description: Color postcard image shows view of Wayfarers' Chapel. Narcissa Cox Vanderlip contributed the 3 1/2-acre site for the chapel, for which the cornerstone was dedicated on July 16, 1949. Lloyd Wright, son of the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright, was hired to design the chapel which opened in 1951. Postcard printed on reverse with "WAYFARERS' CHAPEL / Portuguese Bend, California / The Wayfarers' Chapel, near Portuguese Bend, represents a concept of worship found in writings of Emanuel Swedenborg, which relates religion to life in a clear and positive way. Designed by Lloyd Wright and built almost entirely of glass, the Chapel will eventually be enclosed by evergreen trees now planted around both sides." Also printed with "MIRRO-KROME CARD BY H.S. CROCKER CO., INC., SAN FRANCISCO 1, CALIF." "PUB. & DISTB. BY 'Golden West' COLOR CARD CO. 2583 Maine Ave., L.B. 6 Calif.," "GW-1" and "© MCMLVI by Geo. E. Watson. Color Photographer."
Date Built: 1951
Library has digital image only, courtesy of postcard collector Muriel Lafferty.
Type: image
Format: 1 postcard; 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Identifier: pvld:2387
bar code: 000033746
Subject: Chapels--California, Southern
Time Period: 1951-1960
Place: Portuguese Bend (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.)
Wayfarers Chapel (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.)
Palos Verdes Peninsula (Calif.)

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