The Ponds Chapel was almost next door and religious life continued as it had since 1710 The downstairs was remodeled and the community room, bowling alley and the civil defense headquarters of the 1950’s and 60’s was made into a children's library. The Children's Department got their own quarters in 1971. The whole collection, at the time, was housed on the main floor ( my old kindergarten classroom). A mural by Giogi Manuilov, located at the West end of the building, is a WPA project from the 1930’s.īy 1962, the public school had room for a kindergarten so the library was moved from a room above the fire house to the Ponds Memorial Building. It was designed as an enlarged replica of the church of 1829 and it was crowned by the same weather vane. The building was also known as the Municipal Building. Some of the stones and hand hewn timbers were salvaged from the old church and reused in the new building. In April of 1936, with the aid of WPA funds, the building was razed. Oakland hoped to preserve it as a historic landmark, but architects ruled the structure unsafe. The original Ponds Church building fell into disrepair early in the 1930’s.
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