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Westminster Congregational Church

Kansas City, US

Westminster Congregational Church

Westminster Congregational Church was an historic Congregational church at 3600 Walnut Street in Kansas City, Missouri. The church was founded in the summer of 1895, when disgruntled members of the Second Presbyterian Church decided to hold meetings to start a new church. They were headed by Kirklan

d Brooks Armour (1854-1901) and his wife, Anna Paynter Hearne Armour (1858-1921). At that time, they formed "Westminster Presbyterian Church" and purchased the wood frame church building vacated in late 1894 by Grace Church (now Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral at 415 West Thirteenth Street), and hired as their minister the Reverend Dr. William Potts George (1847-1909). (The Reverend Dr. George left Kansas City in 1902.) On January 17, 1901, the congregation voted to align with the Kansas City Congregational Union, still located at Tenth and Central Streets in Downtown Kansas City. In 1904, realizing the heavy relocation of residents and residential properties to areas south of Downtown, the congregation contracted for a new building to be constructed on property purchased at the southwest corner of 36th and Walnut Streets. The church contracted the New Orleans architectural firm of...

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