| Additional Information: | 2022 - St. Paul’s Lutheran Church is a brick Gothic Revival-style church constructed in 1911 and the associated school building is a brick Modern Movement-style building constructed in 1955 replacing the original school building. The church building has a rectilinear footprint consisting of a steeply pitched front gable roof main block with two, prominent, square towers, of different heights, at each corner of the façade, and a much shorter, one-story, half hipped roof addition extending from the east elevation. A semi-circular bay extends along the center of the east elevation above the one-story addition but below the main gabled roof. Two large, front gabled wall dormers project slightly from each side elevation off center and near the east end of the building. The roof is clad in asphalt shingles and the raised foundation is rock-faced stone. Exterior walls are brick with decorative corbeled brickwork just under the cornices of the front-facing and dormer gables, under the north and south elevation cornices, and around the top of the second stories of both towers.
The façade is asymmetrical due to the two-story tower at the southwest corner and the three-story tower at the northwest corner. The third story of the northwest tower is the steeple including the belfry surmounted by a spire with a cross finial at the top. The southwest tower is surmounted with a similar spire and cross finial at the top. Gable roof dormers project from four sides of each spire: clocks are inset and centered on each dormer of the taller spire. Additional decorative finials are present above the façade gable and on the corners of the belfry and upper story of the lower tower. The belfry has three louvered vents on each elevation consisting of a center lancet-shaped vent with rectangular vents on each side. The second stories of each tower and the lower story of the southwest tower, have two lancet windows with keystones and shared, continuous stone sills on each exposed elevation. The lower story of the northwest tower has three lancet windows with keystones and stone sills, in three ascending sizes, on the façade and a two-tone, granite date stone in the lower northwest corner with the dates 1881-1911. A large, pointed arch, stained-glass window is centered on the façade surrounded by corbeled brick molding, a stone keystone, and sill. The lower portion of the large window is divided into three smaller pointed arches with tracery above. Two entrances are centered below the large stained-glass window and bordered by a continuous, projecting double gable, brick, drip mold with stone coping and keystones. Each set of doors is topped with a pointed arch, stained-glass window. A rectangular stone inset is placed between the two entrance gables and reads “EV. LUTH. ST. PAUL’S KIRCHE.” The entrance is accessed by a large set of concrete steps divided into three sections by metal handrails and a concrete access ramp extends to the north and wraps around to the north elevation with metal handrails on each side.
The north and south elevations each have a large, pointed arch, stained-glass window centered on the wall dormer with a smaller pointed arch window centered in the gable. In addition, two singly placed lancet, stained-glass windows are to the west and one to the east of the wall dormers. All the pointed arch windows have keystones and stone lug sills. Replacement vinyl one-over-one windows pierce the raised foundation and a secondary entrance is located on the south elevation of the one-story addition accessed by a raised, wooden entrance porch. A double-sided, metal, letterboard sign with a brick base is southwest of the façade and reads “St. Paul’s Lutheran Church & School.”
The Modern Movement-style school building is located directly east of the church. It has a T-plan consisting of a one-story, hipped roof main block and a one-and-one-half-story, hipped roof section that comprises the east end of the main block and extends to the south; a one-story, flat roof wing is appended to the east half of the north elevation. The hipped roofs are shallow with wide overhanging eaves and an entrance porch extends from the south elevation of the main block along the one-and-one-half-story section. The roof is sheathed in asphalt shingles, vinyl siding covers the cornice and three window openings on the east elevation, exterior walls are common bond brick, and the foundation is concrete. A string of window units extends along the north and south elevations. Each window unit consists of a single fixed center light between two rectangular casement lights at the top and bottom. The entrance porch is supported by the taller section of the building to the east and two metal poles resting on a low brick planter on the west side. The front entrance projects slightly from the south elevation and consists of double glass doors surrounded by sidelights and large transom windows with two window units to the west. A wide, concrete walkway provides access to the front entrance from the access road to the south and a metal flagpole extends from the ground near the southwest corner of the entrance porch. The south elevation of the one-and-one-half-story section of the building is windowless with a row of five evenly spaced inset concrete rectangles along the west end. Thin sign letters are appended to the brick and spell out “ST. PAUL’S EV LUTHERAN SCHOOL.” A secondary, recessed entrance is centered on the west elevation accessed by concrete steps.
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