Church of Scientology of St. Louis, MO: Construction Begins on New Church
82-year-old German House is under reconstruction
The new premises of the Church of Scientology of St. Louis is the subject of an article in the The St. Louis Post Dispatch, excerpted here:
Friday, September 10, 2010— By spring, restoration should be complete on the ornate auditorium of the German House, the 82-year-old Lafayette Square landmark where the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra recorded in the 1950s.
The four-story brick and terracotta building, at 2345 Lafayette Avenue, has been vacant most of this decade. Opened in 1928 as a German cultural center called Das Deutsche Haus, the building later carried the St. Louis House name and was home to two Christian schools before it was boarded up and seemingly forgotten.
The Church of Scientology, which paid $1.9 million for the building in 2007, is reviving it. After a year of planning, work began this summer to restore the building’s main auditorium, a smaller side auditorium and the entrance facing Lafayette.>>