| Druid Hills Presbyterian Church | |
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| 33°46′27″N84°21′13″W / 33.77417°N 84.35361°W /33.77417; -84.35361 | |
| Location | 1026Ponce de Leon Avenue Atlanta,Georgia, United States |
| Denomination | Presbyterian Church (USA) |
| History | |
| Founded | 1883 |
| Architecture | |
| Architect | Francis Palmer Smith |
| Architectural type | Gothic Revival |
| Completed | 1940 |
| Administration | |
| Synod | South Atlantic |
| Presbytery | Greater Atlanta |
Druid Hills Presbyterian Church is a historicPresbyterian church inAtlanta,Georgia, United States. The church was founded in 1883 indowntown Atlanta and moved to near theDruid Hills neighborhood in 1910. The currentchurch building, designed byFrancis Palmer Smith, was completed in 1940 and is located in theVirginia–Highland neighborhood.
The church, originally known asFourth Presbyterian Church, was established in 1883.[1] Originally located indowntown Atlanta,[2] by 1910 the church was renamed and moved to a location at the intersection ofNorth Highland Avenue and Blue Ridge Avenue in northeast Atlanta.[1] Several years after this move, in 1924, the church once again moved to its current location on nearbyPonce de Leon Avenue.[1] This new property was purchased by the church fromLucian Lamar Knight, a church member who is notable for having founded theGeorgia Archives.[1] The previous year, the church had commissioned AtlantaarchitectFrancis Palmer Smith to design theSunday school building for the church.[3] Smith, who at this time was the head of the architecture school atGeorgia Tech, had designed several buildings in the nearbyDruid Hills neighborhood of Atlanta.[4] In 1939, Smith was once again commissioned by the church to design a newsanctuary for the congregation, which was completed the following year.[3] A historian of Smith's work calls the building "among Smith's master works of ecclesiastical architecture."[3] Thestained glass in the building was created byWillet Studios inPhiladelphia, and Smith had designed one stained glass segment in honor of his wife, who had died in 1940.[3]Briarcliff Plaza, one of Atlanta's firststrip malls, later opened across from the church.[5]