Guide to the National Presbyterian Center (Washington, D.C.) Records
Title
National Presbyterian Center (Washington, D.C.) Records
Inclusive Dates
1947-1970
Call Number
RG 134
Creator(s)
Creator110
National Presbyterian Center (Washington, D.C.)
Quantity
1.00 cubic foot (1 box)
Restrictions on Access
Open for research.
Repository
Presbyterian Historical Society, 425 Lombard Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147-1516 USA
Administrative History
In the late 1940s, the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the USA established the objective of building "for all the ages a great church which will preserve and develop for the American people the message of the Reformed faith and which will be an adequate witness in the Nation's Capital to the Presbyterian ideas of personal, political and religious freedom."
The National Church was founded in 1947 through the formal merger of the congregations of the Church of the Covenant and the First Presbyterian Church of Washington.
Fundraising for a national center began in earnest in the 1950s. The National Presbyterian Center, based at National Presbyterian Church but separate from it, was dedicated in 1970.
Corporate Subject
National Presbyterian Center (Washington, D.C.)
National Presbyterian Church (Washington, D.C.)
Topical Subject
Dedication services.
Genre-form
Correspondence. aat
Minutes (administrative records) aat
Corporate Added Name
National Presbyterian Church (Washington, D.C.)
| Box | Folder | Description | |
| 1 | 1 | Finding Aid to Record Group 134, donor correspondence | |
| 2-3 | Background and Planning correspondence; Planning proposals and reports Resolutions of congregational boards/committees, 1948-63 | ||
| 4 | Existing Physical Plant, Planning of Structure--Preliminary correspondence and Surveys, 1947-54 | ||
| 5 | Advisory Council--Minutes and reports, 1948-61; Sponsors' Committee--Minutes, 1956 | ||
| 6 | Council Minutes and related papers, 1961-62 | ||
| 7 | Policy and Planning Committee--Minutes and related papers, 1949-52 | ||
| 8 | Dedication of Cornerstone, Tribute Luncheon for General Eisenhower--Background and planning correspondence, 1967 | ||
| 9 | Memorials Committee--Minutes, 1968-69 | ||
| 10 | Dedicatory Year Committee--Minutes, calendars, related correspondence, 1968-70; Correspondence re Duke Ellington Concert at NPC&C, 1969-70 | ||
| 11 | Dedicatory Year Handbook--Planning correspondence, 1969-70 | ||
| 12 | Dr. Edward L.R. Elson--Correspondence, 1948-49 | ||
| 13 | Moderatorial Visits to NPC--Planning correspondence,1949-59; Moderatorial Sermon, 1959. |