 Vineland founded 1865, built 1868 Landis Avenue current use: Vineland has relatively few nineteenth-century churches and this is the oldest. It sits on Landis Avenue, near the center of town and now hosts a hotel & cocktail lounge (spirits of a different sort). It was erected in 1868 and was used until 1963. There are many elements of the Romanesque Revival about the building, but the battlement atop the tower is early Gothic. I expect both towers once would have had spires, but few have survived winds and lightning. Less than four years after the founding of Vineland, a company of Baptists were holding services in a hall over the railroad station at East Boulevard and Landis Avenue known as Union Hall. May 23, 1865, a retired minister of Bridgeton, NJ, visited Vineland at the request of a few Baptists.and a church was organized with thirty-three members. Prior to the completion of the church building, baptism was administered in Maurice River at Landis Avenue. Soon Union Hall became too small and a member of the Church offered the use of the upper floor of a recently completed building, Reed's Hall, free of charge. The first meeting was held there in November, 1867. Acting upon the advice of some of the most influential ministers in Philadelphia on July 29, 1867, a Committee on Church Edifice reported in favor of a building to cost about $18,000. September 8, 1867, ground was broken. At a meeting in Reed's Hall, April 21, 1868, it was voted that “the Trustees have power to build the Church from the foundation to the top of the steeple, also to collect funds.” The first service was held in the new church in 1869. That served until 1958 when a majority of the congregation favored a new church building elsewhere. After a three month study, the congregation voted to relocate but it was not a unanimous decision, and some people left the church rather than move from the old church. --from the church's website http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Fields/4383/  Vineland founded 18__, built 1874 Eighth Street & Almond South Jersey was not very receptive to Roman Catholicism in the nineteenth century and so there are relatively few Catholic churches in the region compared to Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian. But this solid stone chapel was erected in 1874. It sits in a residential district several blocks away from the center of town. General Information: Mr. Charles K. Landis, founder of Vineland, donated the ground for the new church in 1873. The stones for the church were gathered in the woods near Vineland and carted by the people to the site. The church was built in the Spring of 1874. The first mass was celebrated on Christmas day, 1874. The first pastor was Rev. Father Peter Vivet. Significance: Description:
The style in nineteenth century but the construction material looks to me to be of a later date. There was no cornerstone.  Vineland founded __, built __? Fourth & Wood The faux stone exterior is new, and there is a cornerstone that says 1945, but the style and scale suggest an earlier date—probably nineteenth century. The stained galss windows, especially the one high in the gable, are clearly late nineteenth century. |
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