Christian Science Plaza Revitalization Project
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PLAZA REVITALIZATION PROJECT Overall Site: • Total Site: approximately 14.5 acres • Open Space: about 10.4 acres Parking Garage: • Location: under the Reflecting Pool • Parking: 550 cars • Size: 1,000 feet long x 190 feet wide Reflecting Pool: • Size: 686 feet (nearly 2 football fields) long x 98 feet wide • Average Depth: 28 inches • Water Capacity: approximately 1 million gallons at any one time; and about 3 million gallons/ year due to evaporation and backwashing Children’s Fountain: • Size: 80 foot diameter • Water spray: as high as 40 feet into the air Photos and site plan used by permission of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and The Mary Baker Eddy Library 2/25/09 Christian Science Publishing House • Completed: 1934 • Architect: Chester Lindsay Churchill • Style: elements of Grecian, Roman and Renaissance architecture • Height: 154 feet / 10 story building • Gross Square Footage: 308,000 • Administrative headquarters for the Church and Publishing Society The Mary Baker Eddy Library • Opened: 2002 • Located in the west wing of the Publishing House building • Library Architect: Ann Beha Architects • Contains: exhibit space, historic collections, research library • The Mapparium® - completed in 1935 – located within the Library Horticultural Hall • Completed: 1901 • Architect: Wilright and Haven • Style: Neo-Georgian • Gross Square Footage: 65,700 square feet / 3 floors with mezzanine • Contains: office space • Leased to 3rd parties Sunday School Building • Completed: 1971 • Architect: I. M. Pei & Partners and Araldo Cossutta, Associated Architects • Height: 59 feet/ 3 story building • Gross Square Footage: 39,000 • Contains: foyer and meeting rooms on ground floor; auditorium on 2nd floor; balcony on 3rd floor 177 Huntington Ave. • Completed: 1972 (former Administration Building) • Architect: I. M. Pei & Partners and Araldo Cossutta, Associated Architects • Height: 355 feet / 28 story building • Gross Square Footage: 254,000 • Contains office space • Occupied by Church and 3rd parties 101 Belvidere Street • Completed: 1972 (former Church Colonnade Building) • Architect: I. M. Pei & Partners and Araldo Cossutta, Associated Architects • Height: 66 feet / 5 story building • Gross Square Footage: 186,000 • Contains: office space; studios; maintenance shops • Occupied by Church and 3rd parties The Mother Church “Extension” • Completed: 1906 (in 23 months) • Architect: Charles Brigham, of Boston, MA • Style: Renaissance and Byzantine • Portico completed: 1975 • Aeolian Skinner pipe organ: 13,295 pipes The Original Mother Church • Completed: December 1894 (in 13 mos.) • Architect: Franklin I. Welch, of Malden, MA • Style: Romanesque • Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ: 2,825 pipes • Original stained glass windows Photos and site plan used by permission of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and The Mary Baker Eddy Library 2/25/09 .