The Channing-Murray Foundation, resides in the former Unitarian Church at 1209 West Oregon Street in Urbana, Illinois. It is the Unitarian Universalist campus ministry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It includes a chapel and a vegetarian restaurant, Red Herring.[1] The Foundation was established in 1954 after a merger between the Unitarian and Universalist churches in Urbana. At the time, it was also as a merger of the Murray Club of the Universalist Church in Urbana, and the Young People's Club or Unity Club of the Unitarian Church. The building was constructed in 1908 as the Unitarian Church[2]
The Unitarian Church of Urbana building is architecturally significant, with design by Root & Siemens, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
Unitarian Church of Urbana | |
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| Location | 1209 W. Oregon St. Urbana, Illinois |
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| Coordinates | 40°6′24″N 88°13′30″W / 40.10667°N 88.22500°W |
| Built | 1908 |
| Architect | Root & Siemens C.F. Smith |
| Architectural style | Bungalow/Craftsman Gothic Revival Tudor Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 91000572[3] |
| Added to NRHP | May 13, 1991 |
See also
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edit- ^ "Red Herring Vegetarian Restaurant". channingmurray.
- ^ Anderson, Jane C. "History of Channing-Murray Foundation and its Red Herring" Archived 2013-11-05 at the Wayback Machine Unitarian-Universalist Church of Urbana-Champaign, 1979
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
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