Part 2: Architect, congregation bring out church’s natural beauty

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Architect Pietro Belluschi was able to capture all of the suggestions made by members of First Presbyterian Church.

Editor’s note: This is the second part of a three-part series on the First Presbyterian Church.

Rev. Hugh Peniston, who had arrived in 1947 as the new minister of First Presbyterian of Cottage Grove, knew he had a big task ahead of him. He had accepted the challenge of leading his congregation not only…