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In downtown Battle Creek, Michigan, on March 31st, 2024, was a datestone at St. Thomas Episcopal Church (built 1876-1877; designed by Mortimer Smith; trimmed in Berea sandstone; a "contributing property" in the Van Buren Street Historic District, 96000367 on the National Register of Historic Places) at the intersection of Capital Avenue NE and West Van Buren Street.
Berea Sandstone, quarried in Ohio, was formed during the Famennian stage (~372.2 to ~358.9 million years ago) of the Devonian period of the Paleozoic era.
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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Battle Creek (7013360)
• Calhoun (county) (1002222)
Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
• churches (buildings) (300007466)
• cornerstones (300002616)
• date stones (300374978)
• Devonian (300391468)
• engraving (action) (300053829)
• Episcopal Church (300153831)
• Gothic Revival (300021452)
• historic buildings (300008063)
• historic districts (300000737)
• Paleozoic (300391254)
• red brick (material) (300444202)
• sandstone (300011376)
Wikidata items:
• 14 June 1876 (Q69239959)
• 31 March 2024 (Q69307122)
• 1870s in architecture (Q74241498)
• 1876 in architecture (Q2744620)
• 1877 in architecture (Q2744630)
• Berea Sandstone (Q30632002)
• contributing property (Q76321820)
• Famennian (Q253839)
• June 14 (Q2612)
• June 1876 (Q15148768)
• Kalamazoo-Battle Creek-Portage, MI Combined Statistical Area (Q125502770)
• March 31 (Q2461)
• March 2024 (Q61312976)
• National Register of Historic Places (Q3719)
• Southern Michigan (Q7570136)
• Treaty of Chicago (1821) (Q928799)
• Van Buren Street Historic District (Q64584838)
• West Michigan (Q3358100)
Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Anglican church buildings (sh85025866)
Union List of Artist Names IDs:
• Smith, Mortimer L. (American architect and painter, 1840-1896) (500000719)
