Presbyterian Church
Ives Chapel
1018 Miami
Baldwin City, Ks 66006

Presbyterian Church
Ives Chapel
1018 Miami
Baldwin City, Ks 66006

The town of Media (W. Baldwin) was established in 1878 on the Southern Kansas Railroad. A Presbyterian Church began in 1881. In 1904, Charles P. Ives and his wife bought the church building. It became a Methodist Episcopal church, renamed in their honor.

Church, rectangle with projecting square corner entrance tower, one-and-a-half story, one front and three side bays, wood frame construction with weatherboard, steep gable roof. Entrance tower crowned with round-arched bell cupola, steep polygonal roof. Pointed arched windows and entrance transom with stained glass parted modern wood entrance doors. Modern one-story rear ell addition NE.

Lance Rider, photographer

Baldwin City Public Library

Winter 1988

Sanborn maps, 1893-1927
County assessment records, 1884-1910
Andreas, History of Kansas Ledger cent. ed. (1970)

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