Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, Lancaster, PA model III.

This is a model that I completely drew up scale plans for, and built in 1/96 scale from 1989, and completed it in 1991. I actually took pictures of the actual building in 1986, but the project got sidetracked until after I got married, and settled down.

The title of this post says model III, for this was my third attempt at modeling this building. The first time I did this was around 1968 as a ten year old kid. I think I gave it to my Sunday School teacher, there. I do not remember what happened to it. It is what I call my first "pizza box" model of the thing. Not very good detail,as most of it was drawn on. The second one I made in 1971, to replace that first one. I still have it, as you saw in an earlier post on this blog. It is intact, but really in scruffy shape, and very inaccurate, and like the first one, lacking in detail.

By 1989, I thought my modeling skills were honed enough that I could try to precisionly model this almost to perfection. The only things I left out was the brick and shingle texture details. I think I was able to get across the American Gothic Revival beauty of this 19th century building extremely intricate textured sculpted brick work detail, as well as the valted windows. and fancy wainscoated woodworking. This building is as it stands today was built in 1891, I believe, and other than the brick now being sandblasted clean of the red paint that was so prevalent on brick structures in Lancaster County, it is the same now as it was the year it was built. The actual building sits on the slope of a hill, the lowest ground level point of the actual building is at the main bell tower, right at the corner of Strawberry , and Manor Streets on the west side of Lancaster City, PA. For ease of building purposes, my model is built on a level plain, which necessitated a taller set of outside steps on the back southwest corner of the model, than the actual building really has. I believe my model is somewhat proportionately correct.

The darker, but sharper images that were taken inside the house of this model were just taken today. The brighter, but fuzzier outdoor image were taken at the time the model was just completed in 1991. The model is now alittle over 20 years old, and the red balsawood framed reinforced posterboard walls are beginning to fade, and the model is starting to show some age,but it still looks very nice!!

Here they are.