St. Paul's UCC Church (Evangelische St. Pauls Kirche) - Defiance, MO
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YoSam.
N 38° 37.834 W 090° 46.921
15S E 693064 N 4278115
Built by German wine-makers, moved new church to top of hill to get away from Missouri River floods...
Waymark Code: WM129MH
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 04/07/2020
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County of church: St. Charles County
Location of church Defiance Rd. & MO-94, defiance
Phone: (636) 987-2696
Sunday Service: 9:00am
Pastor: Rev. Donald Frandsen
Architectural Style: Neo-Gothic
This steeple is 70 feet from ground to top of cross. Being on top of the highest hill in town, it makes the top of the steeple a stunning 130 feet above the ground level of downtown Defiance.
Unbelievable, very little information can I glean for this church. I can find tons of stuff about all sorts of buildings in the small town..but basically nill for the church.
Corner stone tells us the church was built during the German migration to the wine country around here as it reads
EVANGELISCHE
ST. PAULS KIRCHE
1906
Update Sept. 2022, found this:
"Built: 1906
Style/Design: Neo-Gothic
Original orientation of gable-front church was facing east with turret for entry and steeple in center of façade. A generation after church was built an addition wing was placed on the north wall and doubling the interior space. The addition was for offices, Sunday School rooms, basement dining and activities area. Modern replacement windows were then installed in the 1960s. Tall steeple visible some distance.
"Built by carpenter who became county's leading craftsman, and an addition built by Defiance leading carpenter, Martin Thompson.
"Site is half-way up bluff which rises behind church to west. View toward east is over Darst bottoms toward Missouri River. Lot is ringed on two sides with mature trees. Adjacent to church grounds to the west is town's principal public cemetery." ~ St. Charles County Historic Survey PDF pages 118-119
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