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First Church of Christ, Scientist and its six Doric columns on Detroit Avenue
15422 Detroit Avenue, Lakewood, Ohio
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Charles Draper Faulkner designed this Classical Revival church at Detroit and Arthur in 1922, across the street from the public library. Faulkner built more than thirty Christian Science churches and wrote a book about the form that used this one as an example. The portico rests on six Doric columns.
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