Article: Gothic Romance // A Glance at Riverside Manse

Walking Olmsted's Riverside Sunday, May 19, from noon to 5 p.m.

Start at the Riverside depot, on Quincy a few blocks west of Harlem Avenue. Six houses, the Presbyterian church and a landscape tour of Scottswood Common, designed by Olmsted. $10 at the depot, where refreshments will be available. Discount of $2 before May 1. (708) 442-8969. At first glance this west suburban Riverside home isn't even a house, but part of a church. That's the way architect Charles F. Wittlesey planned it when he designed the manse of the Riverside Presbyterian Church as he redesigned the church sanctuary in 1897. Outside it's all white limestone in ecclesiastical Gothic style, with a pair of Gothic arched ...

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