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The Tabernacle shown was dedicated on Aug. 31,\n1890, and had enough seating inside for 2000 people. The Tabernacle was extremely tall, and was easily visible from the\nCliff Drive.\nThis photo is believed to be from the dedication of the tabernacle\non Aug. 31, 1890. Note the absence of all but a few cottages in the\nsurrounding area. The cottages visible had all been built on lots sold\nafter the plans for the tabernacle began.\nA series of circular streets were laid out around the tabernacle, and\nthe small lots on these streets were sold for houses. Initially, many\nsmall cottages were built, and some of these were used by people\nattending the annual conventions in July or August of each year.\nMany of these cottages are still standing today, especially on Errett\nCircle. When the plan for this entire development was first\nThe Garfield Park Tabernacle. Photo courtesy of Tish Payne.\nannounced, it was named Garfield Park in honor of James Garfield,\nthe recently assassinated 19th president of the United States, and a preacher in the Disciples of Christ. The Convention\nof Christian Churches later announced that the official name of the development was \"Christian Park\" but the name\nGarfield Park stuck, and remains in use to this day.\n\n1\n\n�Plan for Garfield Park and Circles, 1889\n\nThis plan appeared in the Santa Cruz Surf on Sept. 19, 1889. Lots in the surrounding area were sold at an auction within\nthe tabernacle in Sept. 1890, for prices of 105 to 135 dollars. At that time there were already seven cottages built in the\ncircles.\n\nEarly View of Garfield Park\n\nThis early lithograph of the \"circles\" neighborhood was published in the Santa Cruz Surf in September 1890, and\nreproduced in Harrison's History of Santa Cruz County in 1892.\n\nEnd of the Tabernacle\nThe tabernacle burned down on Aug. 5, 1935. The circular lot it sat on lay empty until 1958, when a new Garfield Park\nChristian Church was built. The congregation met across Errett Circle, in a smaller hall owned by the church, from 1935\nto 1958.\n\n2\n\n�The tabernacle was not just an imposing edifice, and the largest\nauditorium in town for many years. It was the focal point of the\ncircular street design of that Westside neighborhood long known as\n\"the circles.\"\n\nThis photo is taken from inside Errett Circle, with California\nAve. on the left, running into the distance. The Church is on\nthe right, and the three buildings to the left are still standing\ntoday (1996). The two in the rear were both church property.\nThe small church, built in 1914, was torn down after\nconstruction of today's church in 1958. Photo courtesy of Rev.\nEd Muegee.\n\nSources\n\n\nCopyright 1997 Daniel McMahon. Reproduced by permission of the author.\n\nThe content of this article is the responsibility of the individual author. 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Stevens\n\nThe content of this article is the responsibility of the individual author.\nIt is the library’s intent to provide accurate information, however, it is\nnot possible for the library to completely verify the accuracy of all\ninformation. If you believe that factual statements in a local history\narticle are incorrect and can provide documentation, please contact the\nlibrary.\n\n1\n\n�Garfield Park, Santa Cruz\naka The Circles — Early History — 1889-1890\nCompiled by\nStanley D. Stevens\nSource: Arnold M. Baldwin’s 1923 Street Map and Directory of the City of Santa Cruz. South West ¼.\n\n“… Surveying was going on to locate the concentric circles, and streets about the tabernacle\nplat; plowing and scraping was being done on the California street extension …” [Santa Cruz\nDaily Sentinel 1889 Oct 10 1:8]\nThe question is, “What is the origin of the Garfield Park streets being laid out in\nconcentric circles?”\n“Mr. Hihn was said to have been instrumental in laying out streets in concentric circles\naround the tabernacle, having obtained the idea from a city in Europe which he had\nvisited.” [see :\nSanta Cruz Evening News 1935 Aug 5 1:2-3 ]\n[see also: 1941 Nov 30 12:3 Santa Cruz Sentinel “Eight Sided Tabernacle”] “To Hihn, the\nSanta Cruz millionaire, is attributed the idea of the circular streets, with others radiating\nlike spokes from the central grounds. The scheme was patterned after a city in the Duchy\nof Brunswick he had known in his youth.”\n[Compiler’s Note: While the attribution to Hihn for this concept, no evidence in Hihn’s\nbiography, letters, or other documents has been found that confirms these statements.]\n\n�In 1890, the Christian Church of California built this massive tabernacle in the center of The\nCircles on Santa Cruz’s Westside. It was an octagonal building with seating for 1,500. The\nstructure burned in 1935. The present Garfield Park Community Church now occupies the site.\nThe Sentinel’s Focal Point photos and captions are provided courtesy of the Capitola Museum.\n[Published in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Sunday, February 19, 2017, C-2.] [Photo is from private\ncollection.]\n\n�1889 Apr 19\nSource:\nSanta Cruz Daily Sentinel\n\n1889 Apr 19 2:1 Editorial, by Duncan McPherson\n\nA SANTA CRUZ PACIFIC GROVE.\nThe Methodists have made Pacific Grove, Monterey, what it is, and its success and growth\nrest mainly on their State organization meeting there annually. It is a spiritual retreat for sinburdened mortals who wish to get away from the centres of trade and the confusion of moneygetting—to turn from the earth heavenward; to lay aside worldly considerations for religious\nconsolation. There they find it. There is a solemnity in the Pacific Grove ozone not found\nelsewhere, and which is pacific and soothing. The weary feel it in the air, breathe it in the sealaden atmosphere, hear it in the breeze, see it in the swaying pines and read it in nearly every\nface they meet. The place is solemn, sober, quiet, like unto Santa Cruz, only more so, but what\nany Santa Cruz suburb can be made, and it has given an importance to the old town of Monterey\nnever enjoyed by the ancient capital till the spirit of Methodism touched it with its wand, sending\nto its locality pilgrims who have been wandering in the wilderness for forty years.\nThe Christians, a religious organization denominated the Christian Church, as a State body\ndesire to establish a Pacific Grove, in spirit, if not in name, where they can annually meet. They\nlook favorably on Santa Cruz.\nThe Methodists, before they settled at Pacific Grove, looked longingly on Santa Cruz, but we\nhad no David Jacks to throw his weight in our favor and they settled on the cold side of\nMonterey Bay. The Christians want to locate their religious home on this side of the bay named,\nwhere they can enjoy a southern exposure, railroad and steamship accommodations, fruit grown\nin the neighborhood, butter and milk produced within two or three miles, fresh water and salt\nwater bathing, grand sights, inspiring walks, horseback rides on meandering trails or drives over\nundulating roads, in a climate that is never hot and seldom disagreeably cold, and where they can\nin quiet look from smiling nature to nature’s God. There will be from five hundred to one\nthousand persons present at these annual gatherings, and the sessions will last for days. In their\ntrain and by affinity will come other organizations. Grounds will be laid out and necessary\nbuildings constructed. Lots will be purchased by individuals and modest and cosy cottages\nerected. A town by itself will be planted and mature, and beneath its shade will gather the\nspiritual fruit-searchers from afar.\n1889 Jul 31\nSource:\n\nSanta Cruz Daily Sentinel\n\n1889 Jul 31\n\n3:2\n\nA New Project.\nAt the foot of California St. is a large tract of land owned by F. A. Hihn, E. H. Robinson and\nMr. King of San Jose. It is proposed by these gentlemen that a tract of ten acres be laid off and\nan offer made to the Christian Church of this State to have a Tabernacle built upon it. From the\ntract roads will radiate in different directions like the spokes of a wagon for example. These\nroads will lead to the Cliff road, Fair Av., Mission and other streets, and each to be one hundred\nfeet in width.\nIf the Christian Church people do not build a Tabernacle on the land it will be laid out into a\npark, and water mains and electric lights placed there. Then an effort will be made to have either\na hotel or college built on it.\n\n�1889 Aug 22\nSource:\nSanta Cruz Daily Sentinel\n\n1889 Aug 22 3:4\n\nChristian Church Encampment.\n———\nOn Wednesday morning Rev. E. B. Ware, of Martinez, the General Manager, and J. W.\nCraycroft, of Warm Springs, Alameda Co., Chairman of the State Central Committee of the\nChristian Church, met with Rev. Mr. Tandy, E. H. Robinson, A. H. Fitch, and Fred O. Hihn to\ntalk over matters pertaining to the proposed site for an encampment of the Christian Church in\nSanta Cruz. The visitors said that Santa Cruz ought to send a representative to the meeting to be\nheld at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, next Tuesday evening. For the site of the encampment\nten acres of land on the Ruffner tract have been offered. It is proposed to erect a tabernacle with\na capacity for holding 1,500 people, and at a cost of not less than $2,500. The visitors said that\nthe city would have to contribute $2,000 towards the erection of the tabernacle. The purchasers\nof lots will be required to erect cottages at not less than $300 each.\nThe gentlemen say that already applications for fifty lots have been received. They do not\nwant to locate the tabernacle in Monterey, as they do not wish to enter into opposition against\nPacific Grove.\n1889 Aug 28\nSource:\nSanta Cruz Surf\n\n1889 Aug 28 1:1\n\nGARFIELD PARK.\n———\nCalifornia Church of\nthe Disciples\n———\nACCEPT THE OFFERED SITE\n———\nIn Santa Cruz---All That Remains is\nFulfillment of Promises.\n———\n[Associated Press Dispatches to Daily Sur.[sic] ]\n———\nGARFIELD PARK.\n———\nA Virtual Victory for the Santa Cruz Grounds.\nSpecial to the DAILY SURF]\nSAN FRANCISCO, August 27. — At a meeting to-day of the several citizens and property\nowners of Santa Cruz and of prominent members and officers of the Christian Church of\nCalifornia in regard to the establishment at Santa Cruz of a permanent encampment for the\nChurch of the Disciples, the liberal offer of land and money was made by the citizens of Santa\nCruz and the meeting unanimously resolved to recommend to the State Convention in September\nthe acceptance of the offer. It is proposed to call the encampment Garfield Park in honor of the\nlate President Garfield who was a member of that church.\n\n�1889 Aug 29\nSource:\nSan Francisco Chronicle\n\n1889 Aug 29\n\n5:9\n\nGARFIELD PARK.\nProposed Encampment of the Christian Church.\nProminent members of the Christian Church of this State, acting with property owners of\nSanta Cruz, have determined to have a permanent camp on a grand scale by the sea near Santa\nCruz. It will be similar to the camp or resort known as Pacific Grove. At a meeting held in the\nPalace Hotel on Tuesday, maps and plans of a unique character were presented and approved and\nliberal offers of land and money were made by citizens of Santa Cruz for the establishment of the\nencampment, for the improvement and adornment of the grounds and for the necessary public\nbuildings, electric lights and water. The name proposed for the place is Garfield Park. One of the\ndonors proposes to build and present to Mrs. Garfield a handsome cottage on these grounds for\nher own use.\n1889 Aug 29\nSource:\nSanta Cruz Surf\n\n1889 Aug 29 3:3\n\nGARFIELD PARK.\n———\nAn Account of the Meeting of the\nCommittee on Location\n———\nRETURN OF OUR REPRESENTATIVES.\n———\nAn Enterprise That Promises to be Important and Permanent.\n———\nMr. Alfred H. Fitch, of this city, was present at the meeting of the committee on location for\nthe Christian Church, held in San Francisco Tuesday, at which the claims of the several tracts\noffered to the church for encampment grounds were presented, which resulted in the unanimous\nvote of the committee in favor of the tract offered by Santa Cruz. The meeting was a very\ninteresting one. Dr. David Walk made a brilliant and effective speech in favor of Santa Cruz.\nThe most important offers made by other places were from Warm Springs, Santa Clara\ncounty, which offered forty acres, and Stockton, which offered eighty acres, neither asking any\nguarantee as to buildings or improvements. The claims of these places were presented by the\nsame gentleman, who brought with him no plots or maps to describe the locations but simply\nmade the offer.\nThe committee from Santa Cruz, on the contrary, was provided with three elegant maps, one\nof which was a pot of the city with the circular tract of ten acres, donated to the Christian Church\nby Messrs. Robinson, Bushnell, King, Hihn and others, indicating clearly upon it. Its connections\nwith the little beach on the shore, which will be its own special bathing place, and with other\nparts of the city, were also plainly marked. Two other maps gave a larger and more detailed\ndrawing of the special tract, while one indicated an outer circle of land which could be added to\nthe ten acres if needed. These fine maps, which, by the way, wee great points in the argument\nwith those of the committee who had not seen Santa Cruz, were made and donated by Mr.\n\n�Horace Wanzer, of this city. He made the surveys, platted the land, drew and colored the\nmaps, which are large ones, at his own expense.\nMr. A. H. Fitch, who has been so active in promoting this matter, has no property in that\nvicinity, but has given his time and work freely and has paid his own expenses on his trips to San\nFrancisco. Mr. F. H. Parker was the other member of the committee from Santa Cruz.\nAs said above, Rev. Dr. Walk warmly espoused the cause of Santa Cruz. When the offer of\neighty acres from Stockton was received, he exclaimed:\n“Eighty acres? “Why, I would rather have those ten acres in Santa Cruz than a thousand in\nStockton.”\nOne member of the committee, noticing how many applications for lots in the tract had\nalready been received, said:\n“I am afraid this ten acres is going to be too small. We expect to keep growing, and here we\nhave it half taken already.\nMr. A. H. Fitch jumped to his feet and said:\n“Gentlemen, you see that broad circle outside of that ten-acre tract? I’ll guarantee you every\nfoot of that land at the same price per lot that you put upon your lots inside the tract, whether it is\nten dollars of [i.e., or] ten thousand.”\n“Well,” said the committee man, “I’ve nothing more to say. You have the best of the\nargument all around.”\nThe Committee on Location decided that the central tabernacle ought to be a large and\nbeautiful building, and they request the citizens of Santa Cruz to aid them in building it to the\nextent of $2,000. This sum is but a trifle in comparison to the good to be attained, and, as a mere\nmatter of business policy, is one of the best of investments. The benefits that will accrue to\nadjacent property and to the entire city have already begun to indicate themselves, although the\nmatter, till now, has been only in embryo.\nMr. Abram T. King, who, as the readers of the SURF know, donated a part of the tract, has\nalready received twenty-five applications for lots in his property outside the tract, the purchase\nconditional upon the establishment of the encampment. Mr. King said, at Tuesday’s meeting,\nthat he would build a handsome residence, to cost from $3,000 to $5,000, and deed it to Mrs.\nGarfield, if she would come and spend one summer at Garfield Park. Mr. King, as is well known,\nalways backs up his words with deeds, and means what he says.\nAnother evidence of the popular estimate of the value of such an improvement to Santa Cruz\nis the fact that Mr. Fitch, as agent for Messrs. Robinson & Bushnell, received an offer from a\nwealthy banker, while he was in San Francisco, of $600 an acre for the forty-two acre tract\nbelonging to those gentlemen, the cash being ready on the spot and the purchaser willing to bind\nhimself to give the land they had promised to the Christian church.\nMr. Zumwalt, of Tulare, who visits Santa Cruz with his family every summer has said he\nwould build a handsome residence here. A Mr. Bard of Modesto has indicated a similar\ndetermination, also a Mr. Whitney. These are all independent of the applications already made\nfor lots within the tract.\nThe matter is now in excellent shape to place before the convention in September, with an\nalmost foregone conclusion as to the result. It might be still stranger if the $2,000 to assist in the\nbuilding of the tabernacle were conditionally subscribed before that time.\n\n�1889 Sep 3\nSource:\n\nSanta Cruz Surf\n\n1889 Sep 3\n\n3:5-6\n\nGARFIELD PARK.\nProgress of a Plan Which Will Greatly Benefit Santa Cruz.\nTHE BUILDING OF THE TABERNACLE.\nSubscription Lists for the Tabernacle Fund Now Open.\n———\nThe enthusiasm concerning the establishment of the encampment grounds of the Christian\nchurch at Santa Cruz does not diminish. On the contrary it increased as the time approaches for\nthe meeting of the State convention of the organization which is to finally decide the question of\nlocation.\nThe SURF, which was first in the field in announcing the generous offer made by some of our\ncitizens, has kept its readers fully informed of every step of progress made in the project. The\nresult of the meeting of the Committee on Location, which was held at the Palace Hotel, San\nFrancisco, last week, and which was duly announced in this paper, was the hearty endorsement\nof the claims of Santa Cruz and the pledge of the committee to support the acceptance of the\ndonation in its report to the State Convention.\nA memorandum of an agreement was made and submitted to the committee, and accepted by\nthem, which will probably be the basis of the final agreement between the donors of the ground\nand the Association of the Christian church of California. Through the courtesy of Mr. F. H.\nParker, one of the committee from Santa Cruz, the SURF is able to present the substance of the\nagreement and the signers up to this time.\nThe agreement states that the Christian church proposes to establish a State camp ground, to\nbe used and forever maintained for the general religious and educational purposes of the\ndenomination; that the parties whose signatures are appended desire to have the same located on\ncertain lands near the Cliff road, in the city of Santa Cruz, described as being a circle having a\ndiameter of 750 feet and an area of 10.13 acres, the center of which shall be on the produced\nmiddle line of Younglove avenue, and 350 feet southerly from the middle line of Oceanside\navenue; in consideration of the location of said encampment on these lands as described, and of\nthe building on the lands, on or before twelve months from the date of agreement, of a tabernacle\nor auditorium of some pleasing design with a seating capacity of not less than 1,500, and also of\nthe building of not less than fifteen cottages thereon, costing not less than $300 each, and of the\nopening of the streets as designated on the map hereto attached, the signers of the paper\nagree to donate the sums or things set opposite their names. It is agreed on the part of the church\nthat every dollar derived from the sale of lots shall be devoted to the improvement of the grounds\nmentioned, to go toward the building of the tabernacle.\nThe names of the donors of the 10.13 acres are Messrs. E. H. Robinson, C. R. Bushnell,\nAbram King, F. A. Hihn Co., Dr. Fitch, J. D. Chace, W. T. Cope, Parker & Peakes, Mrs. R. H.\nHall, W. T. Halliday, S. H. Bailey, E. G. Greene, Tanner & Ely, J. Bernheim, L. K. Baldwin. The\nland is valued at $10,000.\nIn addition to this, the representatives of Santa Cruz pledged, at the meeting of the\ncommittee, a sum of not less than $2,000 to be donated by citizens of this place toward the\nbuilding of the tabernacle. This is a very modest sum when it is considered what a sum is usually\nexpected from citizens of a place where a handsome church is to be built, and it is certain that the\nmore Santa Cruz gives the more beautiful the tabernacle will be. For this fund there has already\n\n�been made a very satisfactory beginning. The organization of the Christian church in Santa Cruz\nhas not yet a settled pastor, but its members have bestirred themselves to do their part in the great\nwork which will eventually do so much to build up their church, and their soliciting committees\nhave already raised $240. At their last meeting Mrs. Nellie Uhden was made chairman of the\nsoliciting committees of the county. At Watsonville the denomination has a strong organization\nunder the pastorate of Rev. Mr. Ogburn and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lewis have been appointed to\nsee to committees there, and also at Corralitos and Aptos where there are churches of the same\ndenomination. Mrs. Uhden has appointed on the Santa Cruz committee Mr. W. W. Brown of\nEast Santa Cruz, Mrs. McKoy, Mrs. D. C. Allen and Mrs. C. J. Todd. Mr. C. J. Todd will be\ndelegate from the church here to the convention at Ukiah and the ministers of the other three\nchurches in the county will be delegates also.\nThus it will be seen that the members of the Christian Church in this county are awake to the\nvital importance of the establishment here of the encampment grounds, and it is believed that the\nsum $2,000, which is the minimum sum agreed upon, will be subscribed before the time arrives\nfor the convention. Besides the $240 mentioned as collected by the church here for the tabernacle\nfund there have been other donations, which will, it is estimated, aggregate at least $600 of the\n$2000. D. Younglove has given lot 8, block B in the Ruffner tract, H. H. Hildreth lot 24, block\nC, Rnffner [sic] tract to be sold and proceeds donated, while Mr. Maher has given cash $10 and\nH. E. Makinney cash $100.\nBelieving firmly in the good this project will do Santa Cruz, not only financially, but in other\nways, the SURF this morning opens a subscription list for the “Garfield Park Tabernacle Fund,”\nto which it invites its friends and patrons to subscribe. It will be remembered that these\nsubscriptions are conditional upon the acceptance of the park by the association, and upon the\ncarrying out of the agreement designated above. No money will pass through the hands of\nanyone connected with the SURF, but, if a goodly sum is subscribed, this journal will have the\npleasure of handing in the list to the delegates to the convention. Sums of any amount, no matter\nhow small—nor how large—may be subscribed, and the names should be in by the 15th of this\nmonth.\nIt has been stated in the SURF that fifty lots are reported as “spoken for” in Garfield Park as\nsoon as the matter is decided. It is thought that these lots will sell for not less than $200 each.\nThis will made a fund at once of $10,000, every dollar of which must, by the terms of the\nagreement, be put into the improvement and beautifying of the park. Besides this every purchaser\nof a lot binds him or herself to build upon it a tasteful cottage to cost not less than $300, and as\nmuch more as the [sic] chooses, and to keep his grounds in handsome order. The effect of this\namount of improvement on this ten-acre tract will be something magical. Rev. Dr. David Walk,\nthe eminent and eloquent divine of the church here, has pledged himself to build a house here at\nonce—he says he will have a roof over his head before the rains come—and to give one year’s\nservices to the church here without charge. He is a gentleman of fortune and education, and will,\nwith his family, be an addition to the social and religious life of the city.\nLimits of time and space forbid the presentation of further facts in this issue but enough has\nbeen said to stimulate interest in the subject and to swell the subscription list to the modest\ntabernacle fund. Lists are also open at the real estate offices of Messrs. F. H. Parker and A. H.\nFitch on Pacific avenue.\n\n�1889 Sep 3\nSource:\n\nSanta Cruz Daily Sentinel\n\n1889 Sep 3\n\n3:6\n\nCLIFF ROAD PLATEAU.\n———\nGrand Credit Auction Sale for Saturday, September 7th.\n———\nThe Carnall-Fitzhugh-Hopkins Co., the enterprising real estate firm of San Francisco, have\nsecured this desirable tract of land, being the east half of the old race track, fronting Fair\navenue and Cliff Road, and have subdivided it into 100 beautiful residence sites, 50x150 and\n50x125 feet, which will be offered at auction Saturday, Sept. 7th, at 1 p.m. on the grounds. The\nCliff Road plateau is one of the most beautiful parts of this lovely seaside resort, fronting the\nfamous Cliff drive and overlooking the peerless Bay of Monterey, and is located close by the\nproposed property of the Christian Church of California for its permanent summer home, which\nis destined to become a second Pacific Grove. Twenty-five cottages and an immense tabernacle\nwill be erected at once, and all property adjacent will command high prices. Now is the time to\nsecure a lot at your own price. A special excursion train will be run from San Francisco at the\nlow rate of $3 for the round trip. Tickets good returning for three days. Excursionists on arrival\nof train will be driven in carriages to this choice tract, where a free collation will be served and\nauction sale held. Maps and particulars can be obtained at the office of F. H. Parker, 127 Pacific\nAv.\n1889 Sep 4\nSource:\n\nSanta Cruz Daily Sentinel\n\n1889 Sep 4\n\n3:6\n\nTHE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.\nA Flattering Outlook for Garfield\nPark—Demand for Lots Already.\nE. H. Robinson is very enthusiastic over the prospects of the establishment of the Christian\nChurch encampment grounds in this city.\n“It will be the biggest thing that ever struck Santa Cruz,” said he. “It will not only bring\npeople here, but advertise Santa Cruz extensively all over the United States. Wherever there is a\nchurch of the Christian denomination Santa Cruz will be known. There are about 15,000\nmembers of the denomination in this State along. The Christian Church stands third in the matter\nof membership in the United States, the Methodists and Baptists preceding it in numbers. I want\nthe tabernacle to be able to seat not less than 2,000 persons. I venture to say that within a year\nyou will see one hundred cottages in course of erection at Garfield Park. There should be no\nhesitancy about raising the $2,000. Think of the inestimable advantages Santa Cruz will derive!\nA class of people will come which would in no other way know about our city. They will stay\nhere from three weeks to three months. Then we will secure such assemblies as the Chautauqua,\nand others which hold summer meetings. All of the leading lecturers who visit this State will\ncome here and give lectures during the season.”\nHow much money has been subscribed?”\n“I think about $800, with good prospects of raising the balance.”\n“How much do you value the land and money so far donated?”\n“I should place the value at about $11,000.”\n\n�“Who are the names of the donors of the 10.13 acres?”\n“They are Messrs. H. Robinson, C. R. Bushnell, Abram King, F. A. Hihn Co., Dr. Fitch, J.\nD. Chace, W. T. Cope, Parker & Peakes, Mrs. R. H. Hall, W. T. Holliday, S. H. Bailey, E. G.\nGreene, Tanner & Ely, J. Bernheim, L. K. Baldwin and myself.”\nA. H. Fitch, who was with Mr. Robinson, said that sixty lots at Garfield Park had already\nbeen spoken for. Abram King had alone received twenty-five applications for lots. After the first\nrains work on the avenues leading from the Park to the beach will be commenced.\n1889 Sep 5\nSource:\n\nSanta Cruz Daily Sentinel\n\n1889 Sep 5\n\n3:2\n\n1889 Sep 5\n\n3:5\n\n“Social and Personal”\n\nF. A. Hihn is in San Francisco.\n1889 Sep 5\nSource:\n\nSanta Cruz Daily Sentinel\n\nCHRISTIAN CHURCH.\nThe Garfield Park Project — What\nReal Estate Experts Say.\nH. E. Makinney was interviewed Wednesday in regard to Garfield Park. Mr. Makinney can\nbe termed a real estate expert and a careful observer of the real estate market. His judgment in\nreal estate matters is formed on purely a business basis, relieved of any sentiment.\n“What do I think of Garfield Park?” said he. To tell you candidly it will be a grand thing for\nSanta Cruz; something that has long been needed. I believe that it is an assured thing, as Santa\nCruz possesses so many advantages over other places that there is hardly room for doubt, but that\nit will be selected as the place for the Christian Church Encampment.\nF. H. Parker is enthused with the Garfield Park project. He said that the establishment of the\nPark would prove of great benefit to Santa Cruz. He has already propositions for the purchase of\nreal estate. Mr. Parker is also of the opinion that Garfield Park is an assured fact.\nA. H. Fitch, on again being interrogated, said: “Among those who intend to erect cottages at\nGarfield Park are Mr. Zumwalt, of Tulare, and Dr. Walk and Mr. Baird of Modesto. Abram King\nhas offered to erect a handsome residence at the Park and donate it to Mrs. Garfield if she will\nspend a summer there. The late President Garfield was, you know, a prominent member of the\nChristian Church. I met a gentleman from Woodland the other day and he said that many\nfamilies from his town would spend the summer in Santa Cruz if the Park is established.\nGentlemen from other towns have told me the same thing with regard to the towns they live in; I\ntell you that our people hardly realize the inestimable advantages to be gained for Santa Cruz by\nthe establishment of the Christian Church Encampment. Take Bethany Park, Indiana, as an\nexample. Before the Christian Church established it encampment there the land was\ncomparatively worthless; now it is very valuable. It is agreed on the part of the church that every\ndollar derived from the sale of lots shall be devoted to the improvement of the grounds, and go\ntoward the building of the tabernacle. Now, some fifty or sixty lots are spoken for. These lots\nwill sell for no less than $200 each. According to the agreement the fund of $10,000 or $12,000\nrealized from the sale of these lots will at once be used for beautifying and improving Garfield\nPark. Then, again, every purchaser will agree to build a cottage to cost not less than $300. Of\ncourse each purchaser can build as handsome a cottage as he or she may desire.”\n\n�1889 Sep 6\nSource:\n\nSanta Cruz Surf\n\n1889 Sep 6\n\n3:3\n\nGARFIELD PARK.\nSome Account of the Status of the\nChristian Church as a Denomination.\nThe establishment of Garfield Park in this city is a leading topic of interest and of\nconversation in Santa Cruz at the present time. There are very few of our citizens who are not\nable to see, without argument, the immense and undoubted advantage which Santa Cruz will gain\nfrom the project if carried out according to the terms of the agreement.\nThere is, however, in some quarters, a lack of information concerning the strength of the\nChristian church in the United States and in California, which a few particulars may supply. It\nhas already been stated in the SURF that this denomination, known as the Christian church, or the\nChurch of the Disciples, stands, in numbers, third among the Protestant churches of the United\nStates. Its growth within the past decade has been phenomenal and it includes many of the\nwealthiest people of the nation.\nIn California, although it has not taken a foremost stand in numbers, its growth has been\nrapid and church organizations have increased largely all over the State. In San Francisco the\ndenomination finished last year a church which cost $15,000. It stands on Twelfth street; the\nmembership is a large one and the pastor is Rev. M. J. Ferguson, a learned and scholarly man.\nIn Sacramento there is a large and flourishing church of this denomination, of which Mrs. E.\nB. Crocker is a member. At Ukiah, Modesto, Fresno, Tulare, Woodland and throughout the State\nthe organizations are numerous and growing. In Santa Cruz county the church at Watsonville,\nunder the pastorate of Rev. Mr. Ogburn, is large and increasing. Rev. Mr. Coombs, a minister of\nthe Christian church from Indiana, has lately been holding a revival in Watsonville which has\nresulted in twenty conversions. At Corralitos there is a church under Rev. Mr. Wilson, and there\nis also one at Aptos. At Santa Cruz, the organization has, as yet, no settled pastor, but the\nservices are held regularly in De Lamater’s Hall and are led by Mr. C. J. Todd, an active\nmember. Ministers of the denomination often visit here.\nIn San Jose a flourishing church is presided over by Rev. George Edward Walk, son of Rev.\nDoctor David Walk, who has been so active in promoting the establishment of Garfield Park\nhere.\nDr. Walk has been a resident off Memphis, Tennessee, and has been active in church work\nthroughout all that section of country. As has been stated in the SURF he was one of the original\npromoters of the fine encampment grounds of the Christian church in Indiana, known as Bethany\nPark. The growth of population and the enhancement of values caused by the establishment of\nthat park was something astonishing, and not only was the permanent population increased, but\nthe visitors each year are numbered by the thousands.\nAt Martha’s Vineyard, on the Atlantic coast, a similar encampment was established for the\nBaptist church some years ago. The end of the island purchased for the purpose was entirely\nunimproved. The money realized from the sale of lots was used to beautify the tract and to build\ncottages. The grounds were under control of a board of trustees who had police authority and\nestablished rules for the government of the encampment. Growth began at once. People not\nbelonging to the denomination found that they could send their families to a delightful and\nhealthful spot to spend their summer where they would be protected from everything\nobjectionable and coarse. Now the summer finds the place thronged with 10,000 people. Ferry\n\n�landings and street railway lines are established and every facility for pleasant summer life is to\nbe found there.\nHere in Santa Cruz these delights may last the year round, and many eastern people who\ncome here will quickly realize the charms and advantages of Garfield Park. Should the ten acres\ndonated be quickly filled up there is a wide extent of available land in the immediate vicinity\nwhich can and will be used for handsome residences and comfortable homes.\nNot only have Santa Cruz capitalists done well for the church, the city and themselves in\nmaking this donation, but it will act as a stimulus to other instances of wise and thoughtful\ngenerosity.\n1889 Sep 7\nSource:\n\nSanta Cruz Sentinel\n\n1889 Sep 7\n\n1:6\n\nBOOM! !\n———\nThe Awakening in Santa Cruz — Inquiries, Lands, Sales.\n———\nThe effect of the new Christian Church resort, the stimulus of the auction to-day at Cliff\nRoad Plateau, and the new departure in general, have started a move in real estate, and the scent\nof the boom is in the air. Everything points to a genuine movement in land values. The last two\nor three days the real estate men have been busy in and out of office. Besides buyers now quite\nactive, landseekers are on the wing. Yesterday several large tracts were examined and bonded,\nand the telegraph wires were kept quite hot pursuing non-residents.\nIt is evident that the effect of recent events will be to open up a genuine land movement, and\nthere is now a feeling that it is time to get in before the boom. Undoubtedly this is good policy\nfor those that want a rich return for their money. To-day is the first sale, and the lots offered are\nchoice, the terms are easy and the property is to be sold for what it will bring. Those that seize\nthee opportunity will reap a harvest. The way to speculate is to seize the boom by the forelock,\nand the man that gets into the opening, offered by the gentlemen conducting to-day’s sale on\nCliff Road Plateau, will congratulate himself when within six months the Garfield Park\nenterprise shall have raised all values in that part of the city one hundred per cent. We laugh and\nsneer at the lack of foresight shown by the pioneers who sat down and saw the procession go by,\nand have “gone broke” ever since; but the most of us will be just as good laughing-stock in\nanother year as any broken forty-niner, if we fail to get in before the height of this boom is\nreached.\nThe policy of the railroad company is to extend their line on Mission street along that\nthoroughfare at an early day, and when the Garfield Park is under way the cars will be run along\nthe front of the Cliff Road Plateau on Fair avenue to the Cliff road.\nSanta Cruz is destined to be a great city, and her citizens should show their faith and\nevidence, and their sagacity, by patronizing the very first auction ever held in this city. A\npurchase to-day is a tribute to your own city and a contribution to your own pocket. Go out, hear\nthe music, enjoy the spread and buy a lot.\n\n�1889 Sep 17\nSource:\nSanta Cruz Surf\n\n1889 Sep 17\n\n1:4-5\n\nGARFIELD PARK.\n———\nThe Tabernacle Fund Secure—An Interesting Meeting.\n———\nThe meeting of citizens held at the Court House last evening was an interested and\nenthusiastic one. Elihu Anthony was made Chairman and F. H. Parker, Secretary. The Chairman\ncalled upon Rev. Dr. David Walk, who was present, having come over from San Jose, to give a\nfull account of the park, the project and the progress made.\nDoctor Walk compiled with this request most fully, firing whole volleys of facts and\nstatistics at the audience, who received them with interest. Dr. Walk viewed the project from the\nstandpoint of the benefit, material and otherwise, to be reaped by Santa Cruz from the\nestablishment of the park as well as from the standpoint of the church’s welfare, and though it is\nprobable that no sane citizen has doubted from the beginning the benefit to accrue to Santa Cruz\nfrom the plan, yet the Doctor’s enthusiastic manner, his evident good judgment and experience\nand his ardent support of the project confirmed those present in their faith.\nMr. F. H. Parker reported the list of donations Santa Cruz has now given, on condition of\nacceptance by the State association at Ukiah, 10 13-100 acres of land for the park, and has\ncontributed toward the building of the tabernacle $1,800 in coin, and several lots to be sold and\nthe proceeds applied to the tabernacle fund.\nRev. Dr. Walk was unanimously chosen as a delegate to the Ukiah convention to represent\nthe city of Santa Cruz. In thanking the meeting for the honor he declared himself so sure of\naccomplishing the object for which he was sent, that he would almost guarantee to succeed. Said\nDoctor Walk, “I cannot fail, for I am going to take about three cords of the edition which the\nDAILY SURF is getting ready and scatter them broadcast.\nI’m going to be a news boy\nAnd with the news boys stand.\nA crown upon my forehead.\nA SURF within my hand.\nThis called forth hearty applause. Remarks in hearty approval of the establishment of\nGarfield Park were made by Messrs. Elihu Anthony, Wm. T. Jeter, R. C. Kirby, Carl Lindsey\nand others.\n1889 Sep 17\nSource:\nSanta Cruz Sentinel\n\n1889 Sep 17\n\n3:2\n\nCHRISTIAN CHURCH.\n———\nRev. David Walk and A. H. Fitch to\nRepresent Santa Cruz at Ukiah.\n———\nAbout one hundred ladies and gentlemen attended the meeting called on Monday evening at\nthe Court-house, for the purpose of discussing the benefits to be derived by securing the location\nof the encampment of the Christian Church and the establishment of Garfield Park in Santa Cruz.\n\n�Elihu Anthony was elected Chairman and F. H. Parker Secretary.\nAfter making a few remarks, stating the objects of the meeting, the Chairman called on Rev.\nDavid Walk, of San Jose, who addressed the audience on the advantages that Santa Cruz and\nvicinity would receive by having the encampment located here, adding that it was almost a\nsettled fact the convention at Ukiah would vote in favor of the proposition.\nHe then gave some statistics on the present condition of the denomination, saying that\nalready there were over one hundred churches in California, and during the last two years\n100,000 new members had joined in the United States. The churches were all reported in a\nflourishing condition, and the outlook is prosperous for a rapid increase in membership.\nThe late President Garfield was a prominent member of the church, and the proposed park in\nthis city is to be named after him. The churches in this State propose turning their attention to\nSanta Cruz, the Newport of the Pacific.\nRemarks were made by Wm. T. Jeter and C. E. Lindsay, after which the chairman called on\nthe committee to report on the success met with in their efforts to secure funds, as a guarantee\nthat the enterprise would be successfully carried out. F. H. Parker, as chairman of the committee,\nstated that $800 in cash had already been subscribed and about $700 was promised in lots. He\nestimated that $2,000 could be raised for the project.\nRev. Mr. Walk then stated that every lot purchased would be improved, and the money spent\nin this city.\nThe question of appointing a committee to represent Santa Cruz was then brought up, and A.\nH. Fitch moved that Mr. Walk be empowered to act as a delegate, and the motion was\nunanimously carried. The reverend gentleman stated that it would afford him pleasure to act as\nthe Santa Cruz representative, and promised to do all in his power to have the encampment\nlocated here. His remarks were received with applause.\nDuncan McPherson and R. C. Kirby then spoke on the benefits of the proposed encampment,\nand hoped the scheme would be successful. The location of the encampment here would bring\nmany people to the seashore, and would help the moral and financial upbuilding of our\ncommunity.\nMr. Jeter stated that he had considerable confidence in the ability of the Rev. Mr. Walk as a\nrepresentative, but stated that another man was needed to do the “outside work,” and moved that\nA. H. Fitch be appointed. The motion was carried.\nSome discussion followed as to the appointment of two other delegates, and Messrs. A. H.\nRobinson and W. T. Cope were nominated. Mr. Walk then stated that it would be unnecessary to\nhave any other delegates, saying he could accomplish the matter himself. The nominations were\nwithdrawn, and Messrs. Walk and Fitch will represent Santa Cruz in the convention at Ukiah.\nThe meeting then adjourned.\n[Transcriber’s Note: The name W. T. Cope suggests the influence of F. A. Hihn, Cope\nbeing his son-in-law (married to Katherine Charlotte Hihn)].\n1889 Sep 18\nSource:\nSan Francisco Chronicle\n\n1889 Sep 18\n\n6:5\n\nENTERPRISING TOWNS.\n———\nSanta Cruz and Arch Beach Will\nHave Water.\n\n�SANTA CRUZ, September 17. — The City Council this evening consummated the sale of\n$300,000 worth of the city bonds voted one year ago to construct water works to a firm of New\nYork capitalists, who engage to construct the water works for the sum mentioned and turn them\nover to the city in consideration for the bonds. The water is to be brought from Laguna creek, a\ndistance of ten miles. The system will include a reservoir of a capacity of 60,000,000 gallons,\nthirteen miles of distributing pipe and 200 hydrants, and is to be completed within one year.\nA meeting of citizens was held this evening at the Courthouse in furtherance of the\nproject to establish here a summer encampment for the Christian Church, to be known as\nGarfield Park. Ten acres of land have been donated. A tabernacle will be built to cost not\nless than $10,000.\n1889 Sep 19\nSource:\nSanta Cruz Surf\n\n1889 Sep 19\n\n4:1-5\n\nPARADISE FOUND.\n———\nA Tabernacle for Christians to be\nBuilt at Santa Cruz.\n———\nA SABBATH REST BESIDE THE SEA.\n———\nGenerous Santa Cruzans Offer Land For\nan Encampment Ground for the\nChristian Church.\n———\n[From the Daily [Surf] of July 27, 1889.]\n[For the benefit of those to whom this number of the SURF may come, who have not been\ninformed or followed the rather brief but very inspiring history of the movement to establish the\nSummer Home of the Church of the Disciples near this city, we reproduce here with (headlines\nand all), the first public announcement of the inception of this scheme as it appeared in the SURF\nat that date.— ED.]\nA SURF representative learned yesterday of a projected plan, which, if consummated, will be\nof great importance to Santa Cruz, and also to a large and important body of Christians of this\nState.\nThe Christian church, or the Church of the Disciples, stands, by the latest statistics,\nnumerically the third among the Protestant churches on this continent. Although young and not\nvery strong in California, its progress here for the past few years has been remarkably rapid. The\nchurch, as a state body, has no meeting place of its own, but holds its annual meetings at\ndifferent cities according to appointment. It is considered very desirable that there should be a\npermanent and abiding place of meeting for the denomination, a central home which shall be to\nthe church something like Pacific Grove to the Methodist denomination.\nHaving this in view, Messrs. E. H. Robinson, of Ocean street, and C. R. Bushnell, of Beach\nHill, have offered to donate a tract of ground on Pelton avenue, and near the Cliff road, to be\nused for that purpose. This tract consists of about three acres, and it is hoped that an adjoining\ntwo acres, upon which stands a grove of Eucalyptus and evergreen trees, will be added to the\ndonation, thereby making the grounds ample in size for the object in view and symmetrical in\n\n�proportion.\nRev. Dr. David Walk, of Memphis, Tennessee, who is an influential minister of the Christian\nchurch, is in California, and, having some months of leisure on his hand, and a deep interest in\nthe welfare of his church in this State, is devoting himself to the promotion of this project.\nHis son, Rev. George Edward Walk, is pastor of the Christian church in San Jose. Dr. Walk\nhas seen no other location which is so favorable in every respect for the purpose in view as the\none in question.\nHe was one of the founders and promoters of the magnificent encampment ground in\nIndiana, known as Bethany Park, which belongs to the Christian denomination—owning the first\nshare of the stock and having much personal supervision over the beautifying of the park.\nThe plan which will be carried out, if the donation is accepted, was briefly outlined to the\nSURF representative. The tract of land will be owned by the Christian Church of the State of\nCalifornia, to be used for the comfort and convenience of its members and for the advancement\nof the welfare of the denomination. All annual and denominational meetings, Sunday School\nunions, etc., will be held here. Immediately upon its transfer to the church the tract will be laid\nout and improved upon the plans of a skilled landscape artist, with a view to beauty, utility, and\nharmony of design. The central feature of the whole will be a picturesque tabernacle with a\nseating capacity of not less than 2,000. Building lots will be set off for cottages. Every purchaser\nof a lot will be obliged to bind himself legally to erect thereon a substantial cottage of tasteful\ndesign and to beautify the grounds around it. Every dollar accumulated will be, by the terms of\nthe organization, re-invested in beautifying and improving the encampment grounds, the object\nbeing to make the spot as nearly an earthly paradise as possible.\nWater is easily accessible on two sides of the property. It will be piped all over the grounds\nand fountains will be a conspicuous feature of the ornamentation. It is easy to see of what value\nof the adjoining property such a spot would be and will also be readily seen that the frequent\npresence of the large bodies of people who would visit the grounds would be of important\npecuniary benefit to the city, while the cottage residents would be more or less a permanent\naddition to the population.\nThe additional two acres desirable to complete the donation of Messrs. Robinson and\nBushnell belong to Mr. Abram King of San Jose. Rev. Dr. Walk goes to San Jose to consult Mr.\nKing concerning the matter. If the ground is all secured Dr. Walk will go [to] the State annual\nmeeting of the denomination to be held at Ukiah, Sept. 20th and will place the proposition before\nthe society. If accepted, work will be begun at once, and the doctor’s experience and good taste\nwill be invaluable in the carrying on of the project. He has written to the Christian Evangelist of\nSt. Louis and the Christian Standard of Cincinnati, outlining the plan and believes that wealthy\nmembers of the church in the East will assist in the good work.\n\n�PARADISE REPEATED.\n[On July 30th the SURF again took up the encampment in the following article.— ED.]\nOn Saturday morning last the SURF published an article under the head of “Paradise Found,”\noutlining a plan to establish in Santa Cruz an encampment ground and religious headquarters for\nthe denomination of the Christian Church, or the Church of the Disciples, now standing, in\nnumerical strength, third among the Protestant churches of the American continent. This\nheadquarters, if established in Santa Cruz, would be the denominational home of the Christian\nChurch for the Pacific Coast. So much interest and comment were elicited by the article in\nquestion, and so much has the original plan broadened and developed in the last few days, that a\nbrief recapitulation of the points already stated will not be without interest to the readers of the\nSURF in connection with an account of the further progress made.\nThe Church of the Disciples, although it has made a very rapid progress in California on this\ncoast during the past few years, has had no permanent abiding place for its annual State meetings\nand for other denominational gatherings which have been held at various places according to\nappointment. At the last annual meeting in September, 1888, the matter of a fixed headquarters\nwas discussed and a resolution of permanent location was carried. No further action was taken,\nthough several different places were mentioned, and among them, Santa Cruz.\nThis summer Rev. Dr. David Walk of Memphis, Tennessee, a prominent divine of the\nChristian church in the East, whose son, Rev. George Edward Walk, is pastor of a church of the\nsame denomination in San Jose, came to Santa Cruz for a brief rest. Rev. Mr. Tandy, pastor of\nthe Christian church in Tulare, also came here and the subject of an encampment ground was\ntalked over in a casual way. Finally the generous offer of Messrs. E. H. Robinson, of Ocean\nstreet, and R. C. Bushnell, of Beach Hill, of a tract of land belonging to them in the southwestern\naddition, crystallized the idea into a definite shape and gave a nucleus for action.\nThe land offered by Messrs. Robinson and Bushnell adjoins lands owned by Mr. Abram\nKing, of San Jose, a portion of which seemed necessary to the projected plan.\nOn Saturday last, Dr. Walk, armed with a copy of that morning’s SURF, went over to San\nJose to see Mr. King. This gentleman is a prominent capitalist of San Jose, and is well known as\n\n�the promoter of many public spirited movements there. Especially his work in the establishment\nand building of fine structures for the public schools, and his energy, perseverance and success in\nthe matter of the magnificently graded road to the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, are\nappreciated by San Joseans. With such a man, the project presented by Dr. Walk had but to be\nseen to be grasped and comprehended at once. Mr. King said:\n“I like this plan and I will assist it. Can you go to Santa Cruz with me Monday morning?”\nDr. Walk was only too willing to accompany a man who seemed to be so ready for action.\nThey came to Santa Cruz and, in company with Mr. Robinson and others interested, looked over\nthe ground. It was found that a strip of land, necessary to the symmetry of the plot and\nintervening between the lands of King and those of Bushnell and Robinson was owned by a party\nin San Francisco who, however, desired to sell. With characteristic promptness Mr. King\nauthorized A. H. Fitch, the Santa Cruz real estate man, to go to San Francisco yesterday and\npurchase the strip of land in question for him, and will incorporate such portion of it as is needed,\nin his gift. Mr. Fitch will charge neither his expenses nor a commission for his services.\nIt was also found that Mr. F. A. Hihn of this place owned land adjoining those of Mr. King,\nwhich would make a most desirable addition to the grounds for the proposed encampment. Mr.\nRobinson, Dr. Walk and Rev. Mr. Tandy held a conference with Mr. Hihn and explained their\nobjects and desires to him. Mr. Hihn met the proposition with cordial approval, looked over the\nplans and proposed that a survey of the ground and a plot be made. He promised to give\nwhatever portion of his ground should be needed to complete the plan on a generous scale.\nThere are lands adjoining the plot on the west which belong to a wealthy gentleman in\nIndianapolis who, with others, owns seventy acres. A strip of two and one-half acres from this\nland would, with that given on the east by Mr. Hihn, increase the original donation of Messrs.\nRobinson, Bushnell and King to a magnificent plot of ten acres. The gentleman will be\ncommunicated with and, as his public spirit is well known, and as the benefit of the proposed\nimprovement will be so self-evident, it is believed that he will be as willing as the others to give\nhis share.\nAmong the evidences of hearty appreciation of the benefit to accrue to Santa Cruz from this\nproject, it should be mentioned that Mr. Horace Wanzer, who was applied to for maps and details\nof information regarding the ground, offered to survey and make a correct plot of the tract in\nquestion without charge in order that the project might be clearly presented to the State meeting\nof the Christian Church to be held at Ukiah on the 20th of September.\nA landscape artist with established reputation will make a harmonious design for the whole\ntract, including broad and ample curving walks, a site for the central Tabernacle, lawns,\nshrubberies, fountains, etc., while the building lots will average about 25x60 feet in dimensions.\nIt was estimated that, allowing for walks, etc., sixteen or seventeen lots will be included in each\nacre. The management being vested in a board of trustees, each purchaser of a lot will bind\nhimself to build upon it a tasteful cottage to cost not less than $300, but having the liberty of\nspending as much more as he chooses. He will also bind himself to beautify and keep in order his\ngrounds. Every dollar of purchase money received from the sale of lots will go to the general\nimprovement of the encampment grounds. Water will be piped in every direction, so that an\nample supply may be had. The Tabernacle will be begun at once and will be of a capacity to seat\n1,500 to 2,000 people. It is likely that the contract will bind the society to complete a certain\nportion of the improvements within a specified time.\nWhen the exact quantity of land to be donated is agreed upon and a clear plot of it made the\nproject will be in shape for presentation to the directors of the Church Society. Other offers have\n\n�been made from Irving, Woodland, Stockton, San Jose, etc., but Dr. Walk and Rev. Mr. Tandy\nbelieve that the material advantages offered by Santa Cruz, to say nothing of the attractions of\nclimate, scenery and the delight of living here, will far over balance any other offer that may be\nmade.\nThe Christian church numbers among its members many people of wealth and influence in\nCalifornia and elsewhere, and their aid will not be invoked in vain, while many of them will\ngladly erect for themselves a seaside residence under such delightful conditions.\nGARFIELD PARK.\n[From the above date of July 30th to this date, September 19th, not a week and scarcely a day\nhas elapsed that the enterprise has not received notice and attention from the SURF, our local\nefforts culminating in the public meeting held on Monday evening the 16th. With an extract from\nthe report of that meeting we conclude this review of the pre-natal history of Garfield Park.—\nED.]\nThe meeting of citizens held at the Court House Monday evening was an interested and\nenthusiastic one. Elihu Anthony was made Chairman and F. H. Parker, Secretary. The Chairman\ncalled upon Rev. Dr. David Walk, who was present, having come over from San Jose, to give a\nfull account of the park, the project and the progress made.\nDoctor Walk complied with this request most fully, firing whole volleys of facts and\nstatistics at the audience, who received them with interest. Dr. Walk viewed the project from the\nstandpoint of the benefit, material and otherwise, to be reaped by Santa Cruz from the\nestablishment of the park as well as from the standpoint of the church’s welfare, and, though it is\nprobable that no sane citizen has doubted from the beginning the benefit to accrue to Santa Cruz\nfrom the plan, yet the Doctor’s enthusiastic manner, his evident good judgment and experience\nand his ardent support of the project confirmed those present in their faith.\nMr. F. H. Parker reported the list of donations Santa Cruz has now given, on condition of\nacceptance by the State association at Ukiah, 10 13-100 acres of land for the park, and has\ncontributed toward the building of the tabernacle $1,800 in coin, and several lots to be sold and\nthe proceeds applied to the tabernacle fund.\nThis called forth hearty applause. Remarks in hearty approval of the establishment of\nGarfield Park were made by Messrs. Elihu Anthony, Wm. T. Jeter, R. C. Kirby, Carl Lindsey\nand others.\nTHE TABERNACLE.\n———\nThe Central Edifice Proposed for the\nPark.\n———\nCOMMODIOUS IN ACCOMMODATIONS.\n———\nElegant in Exterior Design and a Model\nof Convenience.\n———\nRev. Dr. David Walk takes with him to the convention at Ukiah an ideal sketch of the\nexterior and interior of the proposed tabernacle for Garfield Park, drawn and submitted by\nMessrs. Damkroeger & Saunders, architects, which seems wonderfully will adapted to the\npurposes for which the building will be used.\nIt will be remembered that the edifice will occupy the center of a circular tract of land,\n\n�containing ten acres. The design presents a building of octagon shape, fitted to crown a slight\neminence, of an entirely unique design, which combines the features of a church, a tabernacle,\nand a pavilion. It will be used for assemblages of many sorts, some of them gathered for secular\npurposes as well as for divine service, and the plan has, therefore, been varied in its scope to suit,\nas far as possible, all exigencies which may arise. Two sides of the octagon, forming the front\nand rear, are longer than the remaining six sides, and to these are added projections, which\nagreeably vary the outline of the building. These longer sides measure 52 feet and the other six\nare each 34 feet in length. The structure thus covers (except the corners,) a square of 82x100 feet.\nThe roof is hipped and steep enough to give the building fine proportions. It is surmounted by an\nornamental cap, which forms the ventilator. The front projection, which is fourteen feet deep,\nforms the staircase wall and is continued into a tower, which is surmounted by an open belfry\nand a spire. This tower forms a principal feature in both the front and profile views of the\nbuilding, and is of an original design which harmonizes well with the general design. A very\nlarge triple window, 16 feet high by 10 feet wide, lights the front. It is 100 feet from the ground\nto the top of the spire.\nThe unique and distinctive feature of the exterior of the ground floor is the original\narrangement of the glass doors which form the six shorter sides. These are continuous, and slide\nup into pockets like windows, leaving the auditorium, when desired, practically an open-air\npavilion with a roof. It is this feature which so admirably adapts the design to the summer\nseaside requirements of the building.\nThe gallery floor is lighted by double windows, two in each bay. The cornice and other\noutside details are in Queen Anne style. Just back of the tower appears, on each side, another\nprojection. This affords the main entrances. The projection supplies two roomy vestibules to\neach of which there are three entrance doors and from the vestibules there are broad entrances to\nthe auditorium, which is a room of noble proportions. The speakers’ platform occupies the broad\nside of the octagon, opposite the entrance, and eighty feet from it. The measurement across the\nhall at right angles with this is 98 feet. The arrangement of aisles and pews is such that they\nradiate from the platform, bringing every listener face to face with with [sic] the speaker. The\nfloor, of course, has a slope from the entrance toward the platform. Another new departure is\nnoticed. In nearly all churches the “broad aisle” runs directly down the center so that the speaker\nreally faces an empty alley way. In this plan a broad tier of seats is placed directly down the\ncenter. The main aisle runs entirely around the hall, skirting the wall, while there are four aisles\nand five tiers of seats leading to the platform. The length of the seats and the setting of the\nbenches conform to the octagon shape of the hall, and, on the ground floor there is an actual\nseating capacity of 1,030. The platform is 10 feet deep by 24 feet long and rounds, at the back,\ninto a niche, which extends to the ceiling and acts as a sounding board. On a level with the\nplatform and communicating with it are two committee rooms, built into the rear projection. In\nthis projection are also two staircases to the platform, concealed from the auditorium but\nconnected with it by doors. Two other staircases give exit from the gallery. The gallery follows\nthe outline of the building and is fourteen feet deep. In its slope and the arrangement of the four\ntiers of seats with their aisles the gallery conforms to the main floor. It is supported by pillars.\nThe entrance to the gallery is from broad landings connecting with the two staircase in the tower\nprojection, and with the two rear staircases there are four exits. The ceiling forms an elliptical\narch, somewhat on the plan of the Tabernacle at Salt Lake City, where the acoustic properties are\nso fine. The average height of the ceiling from the floor is over forty feet.\nIn the tower, over the main staircases, there is a committee room and a staircase leading up\n\n�through the tower into the observatory in the belfry which will command a series of the grandest\nviews in California. The design, as a whole and in detail, seems almost an inspiration in its\nabsolute harmony with the needs and uses for which the building is required.\n1889 Sep 20\nSource:\nSanta Cruz Daily Sentinel\n\n1889 Sep 20\n\n1:4\n\nCHRISTIAN CHURCH CONFERENCE\n———\nMeets To-Day in Ukiah for a Ten Days’ Session.\nSAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 19th.—The Christian Church Conference of California, known as the\nCampbellites, will held an encampment at Ukiah commencing Sept. 20th and lasting ten days.\nThe most important business will be the formation of an annual encampment and debating on the\noffer of the citizens of Santa Cruz of eighteen acres of city property and the building of a\ntabernacle valued at fifteen thousand dollars.\n1889 Sep 24\nSource:\nSan Francisco Examiner\n\n1889 Sep 24\n\n2:2\n\nTHE CHRISTIAN CONVENTION.\n———\nSanta Cruz Selected as the Site for the\nAnnual Meeting.\nUKIAH, September 23.— This morning the real work of the Christian Church Convention\ncommenced. The entire afternoon was taken up in the discussion of a permanent location for the\nState meeting. Santa Cruz was represented by a large delegation with maps, charts and plans of a\ntabernacle. Santa Cruz offered ten acres of land, known as Garfield Park, and $3,000 in cash.\nThe proposition was accepted by a unanimous vote, but Santa Cruz Christian Park was\nsubstituted for Garfield Park.\n1889 Sep 25\nSource:\nSanta Cruz Daily Sentinel\n\n1889 Sep 25\n\n3:6\n\nCHRISTIAN CONVENTION.\n———\nSanta Cruz’s Offer of a Permanent\nGround Accepted.\n———\nOne thousand persons attended the Christian Church services in the grove on Sunday at\nUkiah. J. H. Hughes of Kansas City addressed the assembly at 11 A. M. Sunday. In the afternoon\nPeter H. Burnett, nephew of the first Governor of California, preached. At night Geo. H.\nSweeney of Oakland presided.\nMonday the real work of the convention commenced. Reports of committees were received.\nThe entire afternoon of that day was taken up in the discussion of the permanent location of\nthe State meeting. Santa Cruz was represented by a large delegation with maps, charts and\nplans of a tabernacle. There were lengthy debates and parliamentary entanglements, Mrs. Lydia\nLuce of San Francisco making a feeling speech in regard to selecting any location at all, and the\n\n�selection of a name. The Santa Cruz proposition was ten acres of land, known as Garfield Park,\nand $3,000 in cash. The proposition was accepted by a unanimous vote, but the name “Santa\nCruz Christian Park” was substituted for “Garfield Park.”\nThe special order for Tuesday at 2 P. M. was the incorporation of the Christian Church.\nThe people who named the locality Garfield Park have yet to be heard from. The Methodists\nhave never changed or attempted to change the name of Pacific Grove to Methodist Grove.\n1889 Sep 28\nSource:\nSanta Cruz Daily Sentinel\n\n1889 Sep 28\n\n3:4\n\nA Letter From the Fourth Ward.\n———\nED. SENTINEL:— As it has been decided to locate the Tabernacle of the Lord in Garfield\nPark, Fourth Ward has taken a new start; everything is booming; town lots have doubled in\nvalue; property around the Park is selling fast, and if it continues as at present, all town lots will\nbe sold within a few days, for the goose “hangs high.”\nBut, by the way, there is a petition in circulation and signed by every taxpayer, which will be\npresented to the Honorable Mayor and Common Council at the next regular meeting, and which\nreads in words as follows:\n“We, the citizens of the Fourth Ward, ask your Honorable Mayor and Common Council to\nexempt the Fourth Ward from taxation, for we do not receive a full share of our money paid into\nthe city treasury, as our streets are neither watered ten or eleven times a day, nor swept every\nmorning in front of our premises and the sweepings hauled away, the same as on Pacific avenue.\nAlso, having no connections with the sewer system, no police to guard our property, no fire\ndepartment to benefit the Fourth Ward and to reduce our insurance, therefore we ask your\nhonorable body to be exempted from taxation, the same as the merchants ask to be exempt, for\nthey receive all the benefit and we none of it.\nA NEW SETTLER.\n1889 Oct 9\nSource:\n\nSanta Cruz Sentinel\n\n1889 Oct 9\n\n3:4\n\nOn to Garfield Park.\n———\nYesterday the first ground was broken for opening streets into Garfield Park. The Hihn Co.\ntore down the fences along the extension of California street Monday afternoon and yesterday\nmorning began plowing preparatory to turnpiking the roadway. This street leads to the center of\nthe new Christian Church Park, and affords a much shorter drive to it than any other route. The\nowners of the lands adjoining the Park on the south and reaching thence to the Cliff Drive, have\ntorn away the fences on the line of the new streets leading from the tabernacle flat to the cliff,\nand in a few days a thoroughfare will be open to travel along California street, across Garfield\nPark and through the tract now known as Surfside down to the bay shore. Messrs. Robinson &\nBushnell begin to-day to clear away fences and prepare their lands west of the Park for the new\nhighways to lead through to Mission street.\nA visit to that part of the city yesterday would have convinced one that things are beginning\nto move, and the work of the next few weeks will transform the vicinity of Garfield Park. The\nnew roads and changing scenes of that neighborhood will afford pleasant drives and attractive\n\n�tours of inspection to the people of the city, many of whom have little knowledge of it.\nIn this connection the attention of the city authorities is called to the dumping of garbage\nwhich appears to be going on indiscriminately along the cliff.\n1889 Oct 10\nSource:\nSanta Cruz Sentinel\n\n1889 Oct 10\n\n1:8\n\nMoving! Moving!\n———\nA visit to Garfield Park yesterday afforded a scene of activity delightful to the eye of the\nprogressive citizen. Surveying was going on to locate the concentric circles, and streets about\nthe tabernacle plat; plowing and scraping was being done on the California street extension;\nfences were being cleared away on the Robinson and Bushnell and on the Surfside tracts, and\nstakes were being set on the latter tract. Altogether the transformation going forward was quite\ninspiriting, and one felt like taking off his coat and laying off a section of land into fifty-foot lots,\nopening a few dozen avenues or squatting on a town site.\n1889 Oct 16\nSource:\nF. A. Hihn & F. A. Hihn & Co. Agreements, Deeds, and Leases Vol. 5,\n[Page Numbers] 313-316 10/16/1889\nEntry # 1823, Entry #1824, Entry #1825\nE.H. ROBINSON, C.R. BUSHNELL, F.A. HIHN, A. KING.\nwith\nSTATE CONVENTION OF THE\nCHRISTIAN CHURCHES OF CALIFORNIA | AGREEMENT\nThis agreement made and entered into at the City of Santa Cruz, in the State of California\nthis 16th day of October, 1889 by and between E.H. Robinson, and C.R. Bushnell, and F.A. Hihn\nof the said County of Santa Cruz, and A. King of the County of Santa Clara, in said State, parties\nof the first part and the State Convention of the Christian Churches of California, a corporation\nduly formed and existing under the law of said State, party of the second part, witnesseth that Whereas the parties of the first part did heretofore make to the said party of the second part the\nfollowing offer : “Whereas that certain corporation, known as the State Convention of the Christian Churches\nof California, proposes to establish a State camp ground in the State of California, to be used for\nthe general religious and educational purposes of that denomination, and to be for ever\nmaintained for such use alone : - And whereas the undersigned are desirous of having the same\nlocated on certain lands, near the Cliff Road in the City of Santa Cruz, described as being a\ncircle, having a diameter of 750 feet, and an area of 10-13 acres, the center of which shall be the\nproduced middle line of Younglove Avenue, as laid out on the map of the Ruffner Tract, as the\nsame is filed in the County Recorder’s Office of Santa Cruz County on Aug. 9th 1887 and 350\nfeet Southerly from the middle line of Oceanside Avenue.\nNow, therefore, in consideration of the location of said Camp Ground by the said\nCorporation of the said Christian Church on the above described lands and the maintenance of\nthe Camp Ground on the above described lands and the maintenance of the Camp Ground\nthereon as aforesaid, and of the building on said lands, on or before twelve months from the date\n\n�hereof a Tabernacle or Auditorium of some pleasing design, with a seating capacity of not less\nthan 1500 ; and also the building of not less than Fifteen Cottages thereon, costing not less than\nthe sum of Three hundred dollars each, and of the opening of the streets as designated on the\nmap hereto attached.\nWe, the undersigned, hereby agree to give to the said Corporation, the sums or things set\nopposite our respective names. It is agreed on the part of the Church that every dollar derived\nfrom the sale of lots, shall be devoted to the improvement of the grounds and that said Church\nwill fulfil [sic] the conditions above specified.”\nAnd whereas, the said party of the second part after due consideration has accepted said offer\nand whereas, the said party of the first part have in pursuance of said acceptance executed to said\nparty of the second part a deed for the land described in said offer.\nNow therefore in consideration of the execution of the said deed the said party of the second\npart agrees to faithfully observe, carry out and fulfil all and each of the conditions in said offer\ncontained.\nIt is agreed that the land described in the deed from the said parties of the first part to the said\nparty of the second part of even date with these presents is the identical land described in said\noffer.\nIn witness, whereof the said parties of the first part have hereunto set their hands and seals\nand the said party of the second part has caused these presents to be executed by president there\nunto duly authorized.\nF.A. Hihn ( L-S ) [seal? ]\nElias H. Robinson ( seal )\nCharles R. Bushnell ( seal )\nAbram King ( seal )\nState Convention of the Christian Churches of California by L.B. Wilkes, pres. of the Board\nof directors ( seal )\nAttest : Geo. Edward Walk Secy. ( seal )\nAcknowledged on the 17th day of October 1889 before me\nH.E. Makinney. ( Notary Public. )\nF.A. HIHN\nwith\nCONVENTION of the\nCHRISTIAN CHURCHES of CALIFORNIA | AGREEMENT.\nFor value received I hereby agree to sell by bargain and sale deed to the Convention of the\nChristian Churches of California, a corporation duly formed and existing under the laws of the\nState of California or to such person as said Corporation may direct, all or any of the lots owned\nby me on the outer line of Wilkes circle in Santa Cruz Christian Park in the City of Santa Cruz,\nin said State, at the rate of One hundred dollars per lot for the inner lots and at the rate of one\nhundred and twenty five dollars for corner lots, the lots to have a frontage of twenty five feet on\nWilkes circle by seventy five feet deep, the side lines of the lots to be drawn at right angles from\nsaid circle, the expense of the deed to be paid by the purchasers.\n\n�I agree to insert in said deeds such conditions to be observed by the purchasers as said\nCorporation may direct. Said Corporation will pay all taxes hereafter levied on lots sold as\naforesaid.\nThe privilege hereby granted expires on the 16th day of October, 1891, and said corporation\nshall not be entitled to purchase any of said lots not paid for prior to the last mentioned date.\nSanta Cruz, Cal. Oct. 16th 1889.\nErased before signing the word “performed”\nInterlined before signing the words “observed” “or” “not”\nErased before signing the word “Garfield” & inserted “Santa Cruz Christian”.\nF.A. Hihn\nI hereby certify that the above is a true copy of a paper this day received and accepted by the\nConvention of the Christian Churches of California.\nSanta Cruz, Oct. 17th 1889.\nGeo. Edward Walk.\nSecy, Board of Directors of State Convention of the\nChristian Churches of California\n1889 Oct 16\nSource:\nF. A. Hihn & F. A. Hihn & Co. Agreements, Deeds, and Leases Vol. 6,\n[Page Number] 232 10/16/1889\nEntry # 2277\nF.A. HIHN\nE.H. ROBINSON\nC.R. BUSHNELL\nTo\nTHE STATE CONVENTION OF\nCHRISTIAN CHURCHES OF CAL.\n\n| Deed dated Oct 16 1889\n\nAll that tract of land contained within a circle whose radius is 375 ft and whose center is\nsituated at a point from which the intersection of the middle lines of Oceanside and Younglove\nAvenues, as shown on the map of the subdivision of the Ruffner tract, filed in the Office of the\nCounty Recorder of Santa Cruz County on the 9th day of August A.D 1887, bears North 55° 42’\nWest 376 95/ ft distant, and containing within said Circle an area of 10 14/ acres of land\nAcknowledged Oct 16/90 before H.E. Makinney N.P.[Notary Public]\n1889 Oct 18\nSource:\nSan Francisco Examiner\n\n1889 Oct 18\n\n2:2\n\nPLACED ON RECORD.\n———\nThe Deed Donating Land to the\nChristian Church.\nSANTA CRUZ, October 17. — Final papers in the matter of the establishment of the\nencampment grounds of the Christian Church of California at this place, to be known as Garfield\nPark, were executed and filed today. Ten acres were donated and eight acres adjoining bonded at\na nominal price for two years to the association. The conditions are that the proceeds of the sale\nof lots shall be expended on the property in the erection of a tabernacle and in otherwise\n\n�improving the park. The tabernacle will be capable of seating 2,000 people, and will cost about\n$15,000. Garfield Park is within the city limits, three-fourths of a mile westerly from the\ncourthouse, on a plateau facing the ocean cliff. Applications for sixty lots are already filed. The\nDirectors of the association will require all purchasers to erect cottages to cost not less than\n$300. The donors of the land are E. H. Robinson, C. R. Bushnell, F. A. Hine [sic], of this city,\nand Abram King of San Jose.\n1889 Oct 29\nSource:\nSanta Cruz Daily Sentinel\n\n1889 Oct 29\n\n3:2\n\nMore Sales in Surfside.\nYesterday Block 13 in Surfside, fronting the Cliff drive, just opposite a stretch of available\nbeach, was sold to S. Pelz, of San Francisco. The purchaser expects to utilize the beach privilege,\nand intends to improve his land with that purpose in view. He calculates that Garfield Park will\nneed convenient bathing facilities, and must find them here, and he proposes to prepare the land\nand the beach, and build for the accommodation of the new community to be gathered about the\nChristian Church Tabernacle.\n1889 Dec 5\nSource:\n\nSanta Cruz Daily Sentinel\n\n1889 Dec 5\n\n3:2\n\nWhat’s in a Name !\nThe last number of the Christian Evangelist thus refers to a matter of special local interest.\nGarfield Park is the name adopted by the citizens of Santa Cruz, but the legal name adopted by\nthe State Convention is, Santa Cruz Christian Park:\nThe State Board of Directors of the Association of the Churches of Christ in California,\nhaving signified their acceptance of the generous offer of citizens of Santa Cruz of land for a\npermanent State meeting encampment, in that City by the Sea, were given a grand reception by\nthe donors and other business men, in which there was much feasting, toasting and speech\nmaking. Such men as Wilkes, Walk, Craycroft and Ware responded to toasts in true postprandial\nfashion, and there seems to have been a general flow of the right kind of spirits. The new\nencampment is to be called “Garfield Park,” and soon will be graced by an elegant tabernacle\nand a number of beautiful cottages and other buildings for occupation during the State\nmeeting.—The Message.\n1889 Dec 29\nSource:\nSan Francisco Chronicle\nCity and County.\n\n1889 Dec 29 11:2-3 Santa Cruz. Good Progress in\n\n…\nIn Santa Cruz proper the establishment of Garfield Park, the encampment grounds of the\nState Association of the Christian Church, is a significant improvement. Plans have been adopted\nfor a very handsome tabernacle, which will soon be begun. Schemes for new and large hotels\nhave been numerous.\n…\n\n�1890 Jan 19\nSource:\nSanta Cruz Daily Sentinel\n\n1890 Jan 19\n\n3:2\n\nA Coming Event.\n———\nSealed bids will be received by George E. Walk, Secretary of the State Board of Directors of\nthe Christian Churches of California, at his residence, 132 South Tenth street, San Jose, until\nSaturday, February 15th, 1890, 12 o’clock noon, for the erection of a tabernacle in Santa Cruz\nChristian Park, in accordance with the plans and specifications now on file in Santa Cruz. No bid\nwill be entertained unless accompanied by a certified check, on the basis of 5 per cent of total\namount of bid, payable to the order of the Secretary of the Board as a guarantee. Separate bids\nare to be made for the stone work and painting.\n———\nWhen the great Tabernacle is completed, and the surrounding plateau is decked with scores\nand hundreds of tasteful cottages, Santa Cruz will present a series of attractions to the Christian\nbrotherhood unrivaled by any other spot on the face of the globe. Thither will the disciples flock\nby hundreds and thousands from every point of the compass, and from lands beyond the sea.—\nThe Message.\n1890 Feb 11\nSource:\nSanta Cruz Surf\n\n1890 Feb 11\n\n3:2\n\nGARFIELD PARK.\n———\nA Business Statement of the Affairs of\nthe Contemplated Tabernacle.\n———\nTo the Citizens of Santa Cruz: The Board of Directors of Garfield Park will meet on the 18th\ninstant. It is of the utmost importance that the contract for building the Tabernacle shall at that\ntime be awarded, so that the work of its construction can begin at once.\nI have abundantly fulfilled every pledge made by me to this people. Now I will make one\nmore. It is this: If, by the next meeting of the Board, we have $6,000 in hand, the contract will be\nawarded. We now have $2,500 in the bank, the proceeds of the sale of lots. By the time the\nBoard meets this sum will be increased to $3,000. The citizens of Santa Cruz have pledged in\ncash, or its equivalent, $3,000. Something over $2,000 of this amount has actually been\nsubscribed, and has, by agreement of the authorities, been placed in the City Bank [F. A. Hihn’s\nbank] for collection and deposit. None, of the citizens of Santa Cruz will come forward, and\npromptly fulfill their pledges, I will guarantee that the contract shall be awarded at the time\nmentioned and that the work of building shall proceed without delay.\nWe are now ready to make a forward move, and to push this great enterprise, on which so\nmuch depends, to a speedy and successful conclusion. There is no doubt that as soon as we\npublish to the world that the work has been begun, scores of persons now hesitating will at once\nstep forward and take and pay for the remainder of the lots.\nWe have been criticized and charged with tardiness; but what more could we have done\nunder the circumstances? The ground has been surveyed and platted. The lots have been staked\noff and numbered. Maps have been made and filed. The architects’ plans and specifications have\n\n�been approved and adopted. We have advertised for bids. I have been waiting two months for\nopportunity to complete the grading of streets, circles and the Tabernacle site. I have closed a\ncontract for this work, which will be begun this week, should the weather and condition of the\nground permit.\nThe elements have been against us, as against all others. During the unprecedented winter,\nactive building operations have been out of the question. But nothing possible of accomplishment\nhas been neglected. Every detail has received ample attention; every legal and other requirement\nhas been completed with and we are now ready to begin the work of building.\nNeed I further argue the vast importance of this enterprise to the citizens of Santa Cruz? The\nman does not live who can estimate its future value to this community.\nRespectfully,\nDAVID WALK.\nSuperintendent and Manager of Garfield Park, 127 Pacific avenue, Feb. 10, 1890.\n1890 Feb 19\nSource:\nSanta Cruz Surf\n\n1890 Feb 19\n\n3:6\n\nTHE TABERNACLE.\n———\nThe Contract for the Building Awarded\nYesterday.\nTO OUR SANTA CRUZ BUILDERS.\n———\nThe Success of the Enterprise Now Fully\nAssured.\n———\nBy telegraph from Irvington, where the State Board of the Managers of the Garfield Park\nAssociation held their regular monthly meeting yesterday, the Surf learned that the contracts for\nthe building of the Tabernacle, which is to be the central feature of Garfield Park, were awarded\nyesterday morning to Messrs. Bixby, Evans and Longley, all of this city.\nThis is important news, and shows that Rev. Dr. Walk made no mistake when he pledged the\npeople of Santa Cruz that, if they kept faith with him, the contract should be awarded yesterday.\nIt insures the immediate commencement of work upon the Tabernacle and the progress of all\nwork upon Garfield Park.\nIt is quite important, too, that among a number of bids, the contracts have been secured to\nSanta Cruz parties. Bixby’s bid for the carpenter work, including the brick work and plastering,\nwas $9,972; Evans’ bid for the stone work of the foundation was $935; Longley’s bid for the\npainting was $835. These bids foot up $11,742. The estimate of Messrs. Damkroeger &\nSaunders, the architects whose plans were accepted, was $12,450. This estimate included $600\nfor wiring, etc., for electric lights, which contract had not, of course, yet been let. Taking away\nthis $600 from the round estimate of $12,450, leaves $11,850, which is within $108 of the\n$11,742, the amount of the bid.\nIt will thus be seen that Messrs. Damkroeger & Saunders made a very close estimate of the\ncost of the Tabernacle, and the slight difference of $108 is in their favor; that is, the amount bid\nis that much less than the estimate.\n\n�1890 Mar 24\nSource: The Daily Surf 1890 Mar 24 3:3\nBEGINNING TO COME.\n———\nThe Influence of Garfield Park Already\nFelt — A Restaurant Needed There.\n———\nThe direct results of the Garfield Park enterprise are being satisfactorily shown already,\nnotwithstanding the almost constantly unfavorable weather that has followed the consummation\nof the project.\nYesterday Mr. and Mrs. Truax and their daughter, Miss Truax, recently of Stockton, united\nby letter with the Christian Church of this city, of which Rev. Dr. David Walk is at present\npastor. Mr. Truax and family have come here to make their home solely because of the\nestablishment of Garfield Park. They have purchased a lot there and will immediately build a\nresidence. Miss Viola E. Macklin, lately of Napa, also united yesterday with the Christian\nChurch by letter.\nThis is but the beginning of the good results for Santa Cruz and for the church society that\nwill follow this grand movement. The State Board of Directors of the Christian Church, in return\nfor the donation of land and money made by the citizens of Santa Cruz, pledged themselves to do\ncertain things in return. Among these was the building of a large and handsome tabernacle.\nEvery pledge made by the board has so far been redeemed as rapidly as circumstances would\npermit. The tabernacle is under way and other improvements are being pushed. Land has largely\nrisen in value in that vicinity and the prospect is that the value of the gift will be returned to the\ndonors, in the increase in property, in a very short time.\nOne thing that will very soon be needed at Garfield Park, or in its immediate vicinity, is a\nfirst-class restaurant. During the coming summer it will be a favorite resort for pedestrians and\nteams and, as the improvements advance, “going to Garfield Park” will be the regular thing to\ndo. The hungry multitudes will need to be fed, and a good restaurant, kept by a bright and active\nproprietor, would surely do capitally in a financial sense. Those interested in the Park would be\nvery glad to see a good man take hold of this bit of business enterprise.\n1890 Apr 19\nSource:\nSan Francisco Examiner\n1890 Apr 19 4:5\nCity of the Holy Cross\n…\nOf late Santa Cruz has been a sort of headquarters for religious bodies. The Christian Church\nis just completing an enormous tabernacle in Garfield park at a cost of $19,000, with lots laid out\naround it in a circle, and these lots have all been sold. ….\n1890 Jul 9\nSource:\nSan Francisco Chronicle\n1890 July 9 4:6 & Jul 10 5:3\nDisplay Ads\nSimilar Display Ads appear in the San Francisco Examiner 1890 Jul 9 5:6 & Jul 11 5:\nand the San Francisco Call 1890 Jul 9 7:7 & 1890 Jul 10 7:6\n\n��1890 Jul 18\nSource:\n\nSanta Cruz Surf\n\n1890 Jul 18\n\n3:3\n\nTHE TABERNACLE.\n———\nGarfield Park’s Central Attraction and\nits Progress.\n———\nVery quietly and without noise, except that of the hammer, a structure has been growing up,\nout at Garfield Park, which contains one of the noblest auditoriums in the State of California, and\nof which it is not too much to say that probably not five per cent of the citizens of Santa Cruz\nhave yet seen the inside.\nThe Surf has kept its readers informed of the progress of the Garfield Park project and has\npresented full descriptions of the plans and designs for the Tabernacle, which is to be used by the\npeople of the Christian Church of the State of California as their grand gathering place for\nreligious worship and for the business meetings of their State Association, but no written\ndescription can give the reader a very good idea of the impression of vastness and noble\nproportion received upon the first entrance into the now nearly completed auditorium of the\nbuilding. To say that this hall is irregularly octagonal in shape, that it measures 100 feet in its\nlongest direction and 80 feet from the pulpit to the front entrance doors, that it is forty feet from\nthe floor to the highest point of the handsomely arched ceiling, conveys a general idea of its size,\nbut gives no hint of the fine sweeping outlines and the harmonious proportions of the whole.\nStanding on the rostrum, opposite the front entrances, one commands an easy view of every\nportion of the main floor and of the gallery above. A conspicuous and charming feature that\nstrikes the vision as something unique is the series of broad glass doors or windows that open\nfrom the main floor. These are almost entirely of glass and are so arranged as to slide up into\nsockets like windows, rendering the room virtually an open air pavilion, and opening upon a\nflight of steps which extends around six sides of the building, thus affording immediate egress or\ningress to all parts of the Tabernacle. These doors, whether opened or closed, afford views of the\nPacific Ocean and of all the scenic beauties surrounding Garfield Park.\nThe gallery floor also receives ample air and light from a second row of windows. The\ngallery is another feature of importance and, ascending to it and standing at its highest point,\nopposite the rostrum, another fine view of the room is obtained. When the auditorium shall be\nfilled with the 1,500 people it is arranged to hold there will not be ten of this throng who cannot\nsee the speaker who stands in the pulpit recess. So carefully has that “line of vision,” which\npasses between the eye of the speaker and that of the hearer, been preserved at every angle of the\nlarge apartment that there will be no “bad places” to sit excepting a half dozen seats on the\nlowest slopes of the gallery. This is one of the greatest mathematical triumphs of the design of\nthe architects, Messrs. Damkroeger and Saunders, who can well afford to rest their professional\nreputation upon this fine and effective auditorium. The four tiers of seats in the gallery rise one\nabove another, and seven sides of the octagon are surrounded by this addition to the seating\ncapacity of the hall. It will held 400 people and the main floor is arranged for 1,400. The slope of\nthe main floor toward the rostrum is an easy and symmetrical one. The tiers of seats will\nconverge toward the rostrum and be cut by radiating aisles. The rostrum, itself, is well arranged.\nA recess for the pulpit is so calculated as to enhance the excellent acoustic properties of the\napartment. Just under the pulpit is arranged a baptistry, which connects with two small parlors\n\n�back of the auditorium. Here the candidates for immersion may step down into the water without\nbeing seen by the audience, emerging by a low passage into the baptistry proper in the rostrum.\nAlthough the finish of the auditorium is severely plain it is in entire keeping with the design.\nThe native woods have been so skillfully used and the workmanship is so conscientious and\nthorough that the result is more pleasing than the most elaborate frescoes would be. Mr. R. R.\nBixby and his associates who have done the carpenter work have worked faithfully and with\nskill, while O. A. Longley has given a handsome finish to the interior woodwork and is painting\nthe exterior. The arched ceiling is finished in narrow, perfectly fitted boards of Santa Cruz pine,\nthe sectional moldings and other trimmings being of Santa Cruz redwood, as is the large, latticed\nventilator in the apex of the ceiling. The walls are finished to correspond, and the floor is of\nclosely fitted and thoroughly seasoned Oregon pine. The two main entrances are in the tower,\nwhich faces Garfield avenue, and from the first floor of this towner rise two staircases of very\neasy ascent, giving access to the gallery. On the gallery floor there is a fine large tower room to\nbe devoted to the use of the directors of the association. From this floor there is quite a little\nclimb to reach the large square campanile which forms the top of the tower, but it is well worth\nthe slight effort and is a revelation to the lover of scenic beauty. Ninety feet above the ground\none finds spread out on all sides the very best of the most beautiful country on the earth. A wide\nsweep of the Pacific to the right; just across there, twenty miles or more, Point Pinos, the\nsouthern head of Monterey Bay; to the left the tree embowered homes of Santa Cruz, climbing\nup over the terraces and, back of all, the encircling mountains holding all the lovely scene in\ntheir embrace. No heavenward pointing spires in the world look down upon a more glorious\ncountry than is seen from this tower of the tabernacle.\nThere is no do doubt that this structure is a success, that it will amply satisfy the needs for\nwhich it was designed, and that it will always be an honor to Santa Cruz and a credit to its\narchitects, Messrs. Damkroeger and Saunders, and its builder, Mr. R. R. Bixby.\nRev. Dr. David Walk, who is really the “father of Garfield Park” and the most devoted\npromoter of the project, has just returned from a three months’ visit in the East. He finds the\ntabernacle almost finished, and said, when asked if it fulfilled his expectations: “It is twenty-five\nper cent better and finer, and more exactly what it ought to be than I ever dreamed it would be.”\n1890 Aug 16\nSource: The Daily Surf 1890 Aug 16 3:2\nLOOKING FORWARD.\n———\nHon. Abram King’s Way of Dividing\nReal Estate.\n———\nHon. Abram King, the San Jose capitalist, has real estate interests of importance in Santa\nCruz and, with his family, enjoys coming to the sea side. They are at present stopping at the Sea\nBeach Hotel, having driven over the mountains in their own carriage. Mr. King was one of the\ndonors of Garfield Park to the State association of the Christian church and still owns “King’s\naddition to Garfield Park,” adjoining that fine tract. Being independent of any necessity of\nimmediate realization of coin on his property, Mr. King has hit upon a plan for encouraging his\nyoung friends and acquaintances to invest their savings in real estate rather than to fritter them\naway in driblets. His addition has been platted and divided into lots averaging thirty-five feet\nfront by seventy-five feet in depth. These he sells on such easy terms that almost any person\n\n�earning a reasonable salary can secure one. They are held at $200 per lot. The terms are one-third\ndown and the balance in one year without interest, Mr. King to pay the taxes for the first year. At\nthe expiration of six months, if the purchaser is dissatisfied the lot is returned and the money that\nhas been paid refunded by Mr. King. On such terms it is not surprising that Mr. King has sold a\ngreat many lots to teachers and others who are trying to save a little for investment from their\nsalaries. The lots, with the improvements so rapidly advancing in that vicinity are sure to be\nsteadily enhanced in value.\nMr. King says, “I am in no hurry to realize a large sum on that land. In the end, at two\nhundred dollars per lot, it will yield me a satisfactory profit. I contemplate reserving a space for a\ncommodious and permanent art gallery and garden, both of which shall be of unique design, and\nthe improvements I shall put there will increase the value of all the surrounding property.”\n1890 Aug 31\nSource:\nSan Francisco Examiner 1890 Aug 31 2:1\nChristian Church Convention.\nSANTA CRUZ, August 30.—The annual convention of the Christian churches of California\nassembled at Garfield Park in this city, and was called to order by Rev. J. C. Keith of College\nCity. The President of the Committee on Credentials reported that 171 accredited delegates were\npresent. Other committees were appointed on convention work, and an adjournment was taken to\nMonday at 9:30 A. M., when the real work of the convention will begin.\n1890 Sep 1\nSource:\n\nSanta Cruz Surf\n\n1890 Sep 1\n\n3:3-4\n\nThe annual convention of the Association of the Christian Church of California was called to\norder 10 A.M. on Saturday, by Rev. J. C. Keith of College City, President of the State\nConvention. Temporary organization was effected, delegates enrolled, and a committee on\ncredentials appointed. At 11 o’clock Rev. D. A. Leak of Modesto preached a sermon, after\nwhich adjournment was had till 3 P.M.\nAt the above hour the convention met and after the regular routine of opening, the committee\non credentials reported 171 accredited delegates present.\nThe attendance was much large than in the morning, as the noon train had brought large\nadditions to the population of Garfield Park, and all were interested to attend.\nThe following committees were appointed:\nOn Preaching—Rev. R. N. Davis, C. J. Todd, Rev. A. R. McCullough, A. M. McCoy, Rev. P.\nColvin.\nOn Resolutions —Rev. J. W. Kelsey, Rev. W. G. Murphy, Rev. E. R. Childers, Rev. P. G.\nBruton, Rev. T. F. Rawlins.\nAt the close of the evening services the following committees were announced:\nCommittee on Credentials — J. R. Grinstead, A. M. Growden, H. Shadle.\nProgram — R. N. Davis, C. J. Todd, A. S. McCollory, A. M. McCoy, P. Calvin.\nResolutions—J. W. Kelsey, W. G. Murphy, E. R. Childes, J. J. Brutons, T. F. Rawlins.\nState Work—W. A. Gardner, J. E. Denton, A. M. Growden, H. Shadle, J. A. McCollough.\nArbitration—H. C. Waddell, J. D. Wilmot, W. H. Briggs, P. J. Durham, J. S. Pierce.\nConstitution — E. B. Ware, A. M. McCoy, H. C. Waddell, W. H. Martin, M. J. Ferguson.\nEducation— O. O. Felkner, W. P. Dorsey, Thos. Edwards, Geo. Edward Walk, C. M. Barnes.\n\n�Literature—L. B. Wilkes, R. L. McHatton, H. G. Hartley, H. O. Edson, T. B. Proctor.\nAuditing Committee—W. Judah, J. T. Nash, Wm. Rice, Frank Williams, D. A. Leak.\nNominations—Thos. Burn, T. D. Garvin, Dr. T. M. Stratton, J. W. Kelsey, J. W. Craycroft.\nThe event of yesterday was, of course, the dedication of the fine Tabernacle which is now\nentirely finished, and provision made for the payment of its cost.\nThe hour was set for 11 o’clock but by 10 A. M. the streets leading to Garfield Park were lively\nwith public and private carriages of all descriptions, and also with many pedestrians. By the time\nthe services opened it was estimated that the house held not less than 1,400 people, all of whom\ncould see all proceedings upon the platform, which was the center of interest. The acoustic\nproperties of the grand auditorium proved all that could be wished. No echo or other hindrance to\nhearing was discovered, while the volume of voice from the singers was not more notable and\nsonorous than the tones of each individual speaker.\nA Sunday School service at 10 o’clock was attended by 316 children and grown people, and\nwas under the leadership of Prof. J. Durham of Irvington.\nThe dedicatory services were opened by the singing of the hymn, “Ho ! Reapers in Life’s\nHarvest,” by the congregation, led by the following choir: Mesdames Lydia F. Luse, F.\nShepherd, San Francisco; J. E. Denton, D. Allen, Santa Cruz; E. Williamson, Sacramento; M. E.\nAlumbaugh, Vacaville; J. T. Surbaugh, Madera; Misses Victorine and Minnie Hartley, Saratoga;\nPrudie Gillespy, College City; Edie Harlan, Santa Cruz; Miss Mary Durham, organist; Rev. E. B.\nWare, leader; L. F. Littlefield, Santa Cruz; O. O. Felkner, Vacaville; Prof. Sturges, San\nFrancisco; H. G. Hartley, Saratoga; A. R. McCollough, Watsonville; C. J. Todd, Santa Cruz; J.\nDurham, Washington College, Irvington; J. S. Pierce, Brentwood; L. Maguire, Saratoga; E. R.\nTindall, Santa Cruz; Henry Shadle, Madison.\nA solemn invocation by J. H. McCullough of College City followed, after which the choir\ngave the anthem, “Sing, O Earth, the Glorious Morning.”\nThe Scripture lesson was read by Rev. W. A. Gardner, of Woodland, and was appropriately\nselected from the prayer of Solomon at the dedication of the temple and the 84th Psalm.\nRev. A. M. Growden, of Sacramento, led in prayer, the entire throng of people standing, after\nwhich the choir sang the anthem, “See the Risen Lord.”\nRev. E. B. Ware then introduced Pres. J. C. Keith, of the Christian college at College City,\nwho delivered the dedicatory sermon. Pres. Keith took for his topic the “Progress of Truth,” and\nfor his text Matthew, xiv : 27, “For as the lightning comes out of the east and shines even to the\nwest, so shall the coming of the Son of Man be.”\nFollowing is a synopsis of the able address:\nThe progress of great truths has always been westward. This has been so from the beginning.\nMigration has been largely westward. This is so of civilization; it is so of science, it is so of\nreligion. Judaism arose in Palestine and had its greatest development there. But it moved\nwestward mainly. It was not intended for a great world religion. But when Christianity came it\nmoved rapidly westward. It passed over western Asia, crossed the Heilespont, spread over\nEurope and extended to the islands of the sea. After the discovery of America it passed over to\nthese shores, and has had a wonderful development on this great field. Luther’s reformation,\noccurring about the same time, restored the Bible to the people. That gave them the desire to be\nfree in religious matters. It was translated into the tongue of the common people, and in their\nhands had done the great work of enlightenment and toleration.\nHere in the western hemisphere arose another great movement. Its great work was to restore\nthe gospel to its place in redemption. Alexander Campbell and his co-workers labored to that\n\n�end. This is the great age of preaching the gospel to the world, and we have had a large part in\ngiving it to the people. It is now given to India, Japan, China and the islands of the ocean, and\nwill ultimately triumph over these lands. That great light which came from the east to us, is to be\nhanded to those west of us, till it shall circle the earth. It travels with the light of the day.\nHere we rest by this great western sea in our beautiful home that we dedicate to-day to the\nglory of God and to His work. But we must not pause till that continent which gave us the light\nshall receive it and rejoice. Their night has been long and cheerless. Let us bear them the light of\nheaven till those who saw his star in the east and came to worship him may see the sun of\nrighteousness rise with healing in his beams.\nMr. Keith’s discourse was listened to with careful attention, and its many good things\nappreciated. The above synopsis is a brief one, though containing the main points. One quotation\nmust be made room for. In speaking of the progress of science westward, he said:\n“Astronomy, eldest daughter of science, was born upon the plains of Chaldea. Wandering\nwestward she lingered awhile on the banks of the Nile, then crossed over to Italy, whence she\ncame to England, then westward still to America and, at last, to the Pacific Coast, where she has\nfound a lovely home on the heights of Mount Hamilton.”\nThe choir and the congregation, standing, then sang “Coronation” with grand effect.\nAfter a short statement of the financial status of the association property, known as Garfield\nPark, given by Rev. L. B. Wilkes, president of the association, the choir sang the dedicatory\nanthem, “I was glad when they said.”\nRev. T. D. Garvin then read the following words of dedication, the assemblage standing\nduring that and the prayer:\n“We now formally set apart this Tabernacle, (free from debt) most reverently and thankfully,\nto the worship and service of the living and true God. We dedicate it as a place of prayer and\npraise, where God shall be adored through Jesus Christ our Lord; a place where the gospel shall\nbe fully and faithfully preached as it has been revealed to us by the Holy Spirit through the\napostles of Jesus Christ, a place where, year by year, the people of God, both rich and poor, may\nassembly to take sweet counsel together in all matters pertaining to the furtherance of the Gospel\nin this and other lands.\n“Let no envy or strife come within these walls; let no unholy ambition ever find shelter under\nthis roof; let no unhallowed pride mar the deliberations of God’s people when in holy\nconvocation they devise ways and means for carrying the story of redeeming love to every\ncreature. May no disposition to legislate or formulate a creed for the church ever find a place\nwithin this Tabernacle. May love for God and His Son Jesus Christ and brotherly love for one\nanother fill all the hearts that shall, from time to time, come up to this house of God.\n“May the joyous fruits of the Spirit abound in the assemblies of the saints and the corrupt\nworkings of the flesh be nowhere found. And when these generous hearts that built this house of\nworship, by the most restful of earth’s great oceans, shall have passed to their rest and reward,\nmay their children and children’s children gather here every year to do still greater thing for the\nhonor and glory of the Prince of Peace. May streams of Christian influence flow out from this\nplace to make glad all quarters of our beloved land.”\nThe prayer which followed was brief but reverential and was responded to with a hearty\n“Amen” from all over the great building.\nThe congregation and choir sang “Jesus Lover of My Soul.” E. B. Ware then requested a\ncollection for the defraying of encampment expenses and for the insuring of the building which\nwas taken.\n\n�After a benediction by Rev. J. Durham the large assemblage dispersed.\nIn the afternoon there was a service of baptism and the ceremony of the Lord’s supper.\nAt 6:30 P.M. a meeting of the Y. P. S. C. E. was led by W. C. Ives.\nAt 7:30 there was a Praise service led by A. R. McCullough.\nAt 8 P.M. Rev. W. H. Martin, of Fresno, preached a thoughtful sermon on “Some\nFundamental Facts of Christianity.” Among other things, he said: “If Christ did not make\natonement it would be useless for us to pursue the study of Christianity. If He did not taste death\nfor every man, the Bible is a myth and of no authority. The doctrine of the atonement is an\nattempt to explain the great sacrifice of Christ. The fact of the atonement is the statement of what\nactually did occur. Mystery meets us in the discussion of this question as in that of every law of\nNature. We know that from wheat comes Wheat—from the acorn comes the oak, but no man can\nexplain the mystery of these different life forces. All progress is conditioned on the facts of\nincarnation. The Turkish nation incarnate the characteristic of lust; the English that of\npersistence, allied to conservatism, the American, that of enterprise and progress; and the chief\ncharacteristic of the kingdom of Christ is the incarnation of love. For God is love and Christ is\nthe incarnation or embodiment of that idea, and this is manifested in His church.\nTo-day the association will convene at 9:30 A.M. There will be prayer meeting at 8 A. M. led\nby H. O. Edson.\n1890 Sep 5\nSource:\n\nSanta Cruz Surf\n\n1890 Sep 5\n\n3:2\n\nCRENNAN’S COMBINATION.\n———\nA Sale of Lots in Garfield Park and Adjoining Tracts.\n———\nFew auctioneers of real estate have ever held a public sale with more favorable surroundings\nthan those attendant upon the sale of Garfield Park building lots yesterday afternoon. By a\nmutual arrangement the two auction sales which had been advertised by the Garfield Park\nmanagement and the Carnall-Fitzhugh-Hopkins Co. to be held at the same hour on different parts\nof the grounds were combined; E. A. Crennan, the efficient manager of the Carnall company,\nacting as auctioneer for both parties. It was decided to hold the sale inside the tabernacle\nbuilding, where the large number of people could be accommodated with seats.\nPromptly at 3 o’clock Abram King, of San Jose, one of the donors of the property now\nknown as Garfield Park, mounted the platform, and briefly stated the circumstances attending the\nlocation and dedication of Garfield Park and the tabernacle, from the meeting of a few men at the\nSea Beach Hotel, in this city, early in July, ’89, and the calling upon him later at his home in San\nJose of Dr. David Walk, then an entire stranger to him, who, by his presentation of the mutual\nadvantages to be derived had convinced him of the desirability of carrying through the enterprise\nto a successful completion, which he had assisted in doing.\nAt the close of his brief address, Mr. King introduced the auctioneer, E. A. Crennan, who lost\nno time in getting to business. Pointing out the enhancement of all land values in the immediate\nvicinity of the tabernacle, which, he said, it was pretty generally known and admitted, amounted\nto many hundred per cent during the past year, Mr. Crennan began by offering lot No. 125, at the\ncorner of Walk circle and Pendergast avenue, which was quickly knocked down at $170 to an\noutside buyer. The remaining thirty-five lots offered by the Garfield Park management were\ndisposed of in a little over an hour, the prices ranging from $130 to $187.50. These lots were all\n\n�situated between the second and third circles.\nThe lots advertised by the Carnall-Fitzhugh-Hopkins Co. were next put up for sale. Twelve\nof these lots, which are all situated between the third and fifth circles, were disposed of at prices\nranging from $105 to $130; the lots remaining unsold in this block will be offered at private sale\non the grounds this morning.\nTo the observer who attended yesterday’s sale and was conversant with the history of the\nproperty, there was much food for thought. Two years is not a long time to look back upon, and\nyet if two years ago any citizen of Santa Cruz had had the temerity to predict that in September\n1890 an auction sale of 25 to 30 feet front building lots would be held successfully on this\nground, he would have been considered in a fair way for obtaining credentials from two\nreputable physicians for free board in Agnews at the expense of the State. But, taking in the\nsurroundings as seen yesterday, from the neat and tasteful cottages to the stately edifice in which\nthe sale was held and the large number of people from all parts of California temporarily residing\non the grounds, he might well be considered a wise man indeed who could predict what the\nfuture will bring forth. What everybody does know is that this has been the result of but one\nyear’s work under the greatest difficulties and that “the end is not yet.”\n1890 Sep 6\nSource:\n\nSanta Cruz Surf\n\n1890 Sep 6\n\n3:3-5\n\nCHRISTIAN PARK.\n———\nAn Authorized Historical Statement\n———\nFROM THE BEGINNING UNTIL NOW\n———\nBy Rev. J. E. Denton, Pastor of the\nChristian Church of Santa Cruz.\n———\nThe following is an extract from the minutes of the Christian Convention of September 4th:\nOn motion of Rev. M. J. Fergusson it was unanimously\nResolved, That Rev. J. E. Denton be appointed a committee of one to prepare a brief history\nof the Santa Cruz Christian Park, to be spread on the minutes of the Convention.\nIn compliance with this action, Rev. Mr. Denton has taken the time and trouble carefully to\nconsult all available data, and to compile a statement which appears below. This report will be\npresented to the convention at this morning’s session.\nHISTORICAL STATEMENT.\nThe first effort of the State Convention of Christian churches in California, looking toward a\npermanent location, was inaugurated at the State meeting at Irvington, in September, 1888, when\na motion was carried to appoint a committee to investigate the subject and report. In the talks\nmade upon that motion, various speakers mentioned desirable sites. Among them brother Geo.\nEdward Walk, who said, “Why not locate on some beautiful spot on Monterey Bay, say at Santa\nCruz?” He was the first who mentioned Santa Cruz as the place. On brother C. J. Todd’s return\nfrom the State meeting he reported to the few brethren who met to worship in DeLamater’s hall\nthat the convention was to be located and that Santa Cruz had been favorably mentioned.\nSome time during the next winter brother Todd received a letter from brother Ware asking\n\n�the church at Santa Cruz, “Can you induce the people, either of the railroad companies, or other\nparties, to offer a site for a permanent location?” This letter was referred to sister Nellie Uhden,\nwho, being well acquainted, was appointed to make inquiries. She saw the editor of the Sentinel\nand showed him the contents of the letter, which was made the basis of an encouraging editorial\nin the next issue of that paper. This was about the 20 of April, 1889.\n\nAfter this there was a pause in the proceedings until about the last of June, 1889, when\nbrother Henry Shadle, one of the State evangelists was directed by General Manager Ware to\nlook out a location and see what could be done toward securing grounds. In the meantime Mr. A.\nH. Fitch, a real estate man of Santa Cruz, heard an indefinite report that a site was wanted for\nsome kind of public building, and he came to brother Todd to inquire concerning the enterprise.\nHe told him that it was to be a home for the Christian church in its annual meetings, similar to\nthe famous Methodist resort at Pacific Grove, except that it was to be on a still grander scale and\nthe cottages to be substantial and permanent. Brother Todd referred him to brothers R. N. Davis\nand H. Shadle, who were in Santa Cruz, who took their offers, and brother Shadle reported that\nfour acres could be obtained as a donation, and more could be bought at reasonable rates.\nAbout the time brother Shadle left Santa Cruz, brother David Walk of Memphis, Tenn.,\ncame, and on Lord’s day preached in the hall. Among the hearers was sister Douglass of San\nFrancisco, who was spending the summer here, and and [sic] whose sympathies had been\nenlisted in behalf of the little band. She remarked to brother Todd the fewness of numbers and\n\n�the loneliness of the situation of the church. In the conversation brother Todd said, “The church\nat Santa Cruz has a bright future before it. The State Convention is to be located, and we have an\noffer of location and lands which we think will bring it to Santa Cruz.” Sister Douglass,\ndelighted at the prospect, called to see brother David Walk and said, “Why don’t you take the\nmatter in hand and work it up.” Mrs. David Walk and Mrs. S. S. Mathews of Kansas City, Mo.,\nwere present at the first interview between Dr. Walk and Mrs. Douglass, and it was through their\nenthusiastic espousal of the cause that he was induced to give it his attention.\nHe was immediately filled with enthusiasm for the project, and took his place at the head of\nthe enterprise, systematically working to get it on a solid foundation. He, with brother H. F.\nTandy of Tulare City, conferred with Messrs. E. H. Robinson and C. R. Bushnell to see what\nthey would do and what stipulations they would require the church to fulfill. These public\nspirited gentlemen offered to donate a tract of ground consisting of about three acres near the\n“Cliff Drive” and adjoining the eucalyptus grove now at our very door.\nWith the expectation that other donations of land would be added, this definite proposition\nwas considered a noble step toward the solution of the problem. Mrs. Raymond of the SURF, with\nher accustomed wakefulness for the interests of every good enterprise, caught the first sounds of\nsuccess. She at once interviewed Dr. Walk, who outlined for her the proposed donation as\nfollows:\n“The land to be owned by the Christian churches of California and used for all annual\nmeetings of that people will be laid out and improved upon the plans of a skilled landscape artist,\nwith a view to beauty, utility and harmony of design. The central feature will be a picturesque\nTabernacle, with a seating capacity of not less than 2,000. Building lots will be set off for\ncottages. Every purchaser of a lot will be obliged to bind himself legally to erect thereon a\nsubstantial cottage of tasteful design and to beautify the grounds around it.\nEvery dollar accumulated will be, by the terms of the organization, re-invested in beautifying\nand improving the encampment grounds, and the object will be to make the spot as nearly an\nearthly paradise as possible.”\nAll the facts were fully and brilliantly set forth in the DAILY SURF of July 27, 1889, under the\nflaming head lines of “Paradise Found — A Tabernacle for Christians to be Built at Santa Cruz\n— A Sabbath Rest Beside the Sea — Generous Santa Cruzans Offer Land for an Encampment\nGround for the Christian Church.” [see transcription above: Santa Cruz Surf 1889 Sep 19 4:1-5].\nEvery phase of the subject was presented; the strength of this people, numerically third among\nthe Protestant churches on this continent, and rapidly growing in California, the need of a\npermanent and abiding place of meeting for this great people and the benefits to accrue to Santa\nCruz from having such influences and such institutions in their midst.\nJuly 30th, 1889, the SURF again took up the encampment under the heading “Paradise\nRepeated,” reviewing its former statements and adding new points of interest in regard to the\nprogress of the scheme.\nThe generous offer of Messrs. Robinson and Bushnell having formed a nucleus of definite\nshape, other gentlemen were soon enlisted. Mr. Abram King, of San Jose, owned land adjoining\nthat offered by Robinson and Bushnell. A part of this land was necessary to give success and\nmagnitude to the projected plan. Bro. Walk, armed with a copy of the SURF, went to San Jose to\nlay the plan before Mr. King. This gentleman, having been the promoter of many other public\nspirited movements, was not slow to understand nor afraid to act. The project was heartily\nendorsed by him. Mr. King said, “I like this plan, and I will assist it; can you go to Santa Cruz\nwith me Monday morning?”\n\n�They came to Santa Cruz and in connection with Mr. Robinson and others, looked over the\nground. It was found that a strip of land necessary to the symmetry of the plot and intervening\nbetween the lands of Mr. King and Mr. Bushnell, was owned by a party in San Francisco. Mr.\nKing promptly bought this land and incorporated such portion of it as was needed in his gift.\nIt was also found that Mr. F. A. Hihn, of Santa Cruz, owned lands adjoining those of Mr.\nKing, which would make a most desirable addition to the grounds for the proposed encampment.\nMessrs. Robinson, Walk and Tandy held a conference with Mr. Hihn and explained their objects\nwith and desires to him. Mr. Hihn met the proposition with cordial approval, and promised to\ngive whatever portion of his ground should be needed to complete the plan on a generous scale.\nStill other lands, which could only be obtained by purchase, was needed to complete the\ncircle. This gave the Carnall-Fitzhugh-Hopkins Co. a chance to be identified with the noble\nenterprise, and they subscribed $300 toward the purchase of the grant needed. Mr. F. H. Parker\nof the Ocean Villa tract also furnished $400 for the same purpose. Many other citizens followed\nwith subscriptions amounting to about $3,000 toward building the Tabernacle. Among some the\nprinciple subscriptions were the Carnall-Fitzhugh-Hopkins Co., $300; D. Younglove, $250;\nMiller & Jenkins, $250; Grover & Co., $200; Mr. Cunningham $200. Friends sprang up on every\nhand as if by magic—nay, rather by the Providence of God. Mr. Horace Wanzer, Civil Engineer\nof the city, offered to survey, stake and plot the tract without charge, in order that the project\nmight be clearly presented to the State meeting at Ukiah on the 20th of September. It is to him\nwe owe those bright and accurate maps which were the source of information and the center of\nattraction at Ukiah.\nH. E. Makinney also rendered valuable assistance in preparing abstracts, and rendering other\nsubstantial aid.\nMessrs. Damkroeger & Saunders asked the privilege of making plans and specifications for\nthe Tabernacle, as their contribution to the work. Their offer was gladly accepted, and the plans\nmade by them were finally used in the construction of this magnificent temple.\nDr. Walk was selected by the church at Santa Cruz and the citizens as their agent to present\nthe scheme to the convention at Ukiah.\nThe proposition to locate in the city by the sea was read by Dr. Walk and hailed with\nenthusiasm and delight. The following resolution offered by brother E. B. Ware was\nunanimously adopted:\nResolved, That this convention accept the proposition of the citizens of Santa Cruz, as per\nmemorandum of agreement, made and dated August 12th, 1889, and that the State Convention of\nthe Christian churches in California be located permanently at Santa Cruz.\nIt was moved and carried that the name of the park be Santa Cruz Christian Park, and\nthis is its legal name, but its existence had been so individualized, that it already had such a\nhistory that it is popularly known to-day as Garfield Park, and we are happy to believe that it is\nno less a Christian Park for being named for a Christian man.\nAt the Ukiah Convention a vote of thanks was tendered in recognition of the invaluable\nservices rendered by the Daily SURF in securing the location of the park in that beautiful seaside\nresort.\nThis recognition was just. From July 30th to the time the Park became an assured success,\nnot a week and scarcely a day elapsed that the enterprise did not receive notice and attention\nfrom the SURF. It became the head and front of the movement. Just before the Ukiah convention\nthe SURF published a map of the grounds, with every lot marked and the streets named, and\nrepublished the project from its incipiency, and sent to the convention 1,000 copies of the paper,\n\n�containing eight pages, for gratuitous distribution. It gave a column description of the plans of\nthe building, and again gave the description when plans had been changed into walls of fact,\nfoundations of granite and roof self-supporting. The contracts for the building were let as\nfollows: stone work, Mr. Evans; carpenter work, Mr. R. R. Bixby; painting, Mr. Longley. It is\nthe opinion of your historian, who visited the grounds almost daily during its construction, that\nno more honest piece of work, either on the part of architects or builders, was ever done than this\nTabernacle, which was erected at a cost of about $14,000, and which was solemnly dedicated to\nthe service of God August 31, 1890. It stands in the centre of the “Cliff Drive,” which is taken\ndaily by visitors from all parts of the world, and it is in full view all the way.\nIt stands by the sea, where the buoy sends forth its doleful warnings, where the white spray is\ndashed high from craggy peak and rocky cavern. Behind it are the Santa Cruz mountains,\ncrowned by Loma Prieta’s peak, to remind us of the eternal and sustaining power of God.\nIts lofty dome looks out upon the beautiful expanse of blue waters, and the heavens to which\nit points say to us “Go preach the gospel to every creature.”\n1890 Sep 6\nSource:\n\nSanta Cruz Surf\n\n1890 Sep 6\n\n3:6\n\nAT THE PARK.\n———\nDelegates and Visitors Now on the Garfield Park Register.\n———\n[Transcriber’s Note: The original newspaper article listed the names, run-on, not in alphabetical\norder; my transcription has converted the order, and sorted the names. The manner in which the\noriginal names are listed it is not always clear which city the individual is from. I have used the\nname of the city that appears just after the string of names in which the name appears.]\nAlexander, J. T. (Mrs.), Lakeport\nAlumbaugh, F. W., Vacaville\nArcher, A. J., Panoche\nAull, Mary F., Modesto\nBaker, O. A. (Mrs.), Merced\nBarr, Thos., Oakland\nBeamer, Mary (Mrs.), Woodland\nBennett, C. R., Oakland\nBenson, M. J. (Mrs.), Trenton, Mo.\nBradley, J. H., Corralitos\nBray, Delia (Mrs.), Wheatland\nBridgewater, Emma (Mrs.), Watsonville\nBriggs, W. H., Visalia\nBrown, John, Madera\nBrunk, Alf., Galt\nBruton, J. J., Lakeport\nBurk, Erastas, Mountain View\nBurnett, A. G. (Mrs.), Santa Rosa\nBurnett, Julia (Mrs.), Wheatland\nChrisman, A. P., Los Gatos\n\nClark, F. C., Napa Ci8ty\nClugh, C. W., Merced\nCoffman, Kate (Mrs.), Watsonville\nColvin, Peter, Stockton\nComstock, A. (Mrs.), Visalia\nCrabb, L. L., Fortuna\nCrader, W. J. (Mrs.), Sacramento\nCrandall, F. W., Los Gatos\nCraycroft, T. B., Panoche\nCutler, Elda (Mrs.), Colusa\nDavis, R. N., Los Gatos\nDoughty, Belle, Stockton\nDouglass, N. S. (Mrs.), San Francisco\nEaton, R. W., Watsonville\nEddy, E. D., San Mateo\nEdson, H. O., Nicolaus, Sutter Co.\nEdward, Thos., Gilroy\nEdwards, P. Kate, Madera\nEllis, Sarah, Butte City\nEnsley, L. H., Traver\n\n�Evans, W. H. (Mrs.), Tulare\nFay, M. (Mrs.), Sacramento\nFelkner, O. O., Vacaville\nFitzgerald, H. E. (Mrs.), Rolinville\nFord, A. C., Irvington\nFord, F. S., Ione\nFord, H. D., Ione\nFord, Mabel, College City\nFord, Pierce, Tucson, Arizona\nFowler, Charley A., Tulare\nFowler, M. A. (Mrs.), Tulare\nFraser, J. Lou (Mrs.), Wheatland\nGarvin, T. D., Santa Barbara\nGifford, P. E. (Mrs.), Oakland\nGillaspy, R. C., College City\nGreen, S. F., College City\nGrinstead, J. R., Healdsburg\nHaley, J. H., Lickford, San Joaquin Co.\nHall, E. A. (Mrs.), Healdsburg\nHarlan, Jo, Woodland\nHaslan, Grace H., Woodland\nHawkins, Duff (Mrs.), Vacaville\nHawkins, Geo., Vacaville\nHockabout, W. H., Corralitos\nHoffman, G. H., St. Louis, Mo.\nHolgen, J. W., Woodland\nHonuebins, S., Colusa\nHouston, J. W. (Mrs.), Elk Creek, Colusa Co.\nIsrael, F. S., College City\nIves, W. C., Santa Rosa\nJackson, (Mrs. Dr.), Woodland\nJackson, Alice, Woodland\nJeans, R. (Mrs.), Woodland\nJohnson, A. S. (Mrs.), San Andreas\nJohnson, L. A. (Mrs.), Visalia\nJordan, W. F. (Mrs.), San Luis Obispo\nKean, Mary R., Woodland\nKelsey, J. W., Willows\nKing, C. A. (Mrs.), Merced\nKing, J., Merced\nLargent, J. M., Fortuna\nLayford, P. S., Los Gatos\nLayton, Henry, Sacramento\nLemoine, P. B. (Mrs.), Brentwood\nLewis, Joshua, Tulare\nLong, S. E. (Mrs.), Visalia\n\nLoudrain, C. (Mrs.), Merced\nLyle, M. R., Oakland\nMartin, Angie B. (Mrs.), Fresno\nMcClellan, R. L. (Miss), Oroville\nMcDonald, J. E. (Mrs.), Oakland\nMcGraw, E. E., San Jose\nMonroe, S. E. (Mrs.), Madison\nMontgomery, J. W., Los Gatos\nMulligan, F. L. (Miss), Healdsburg\nMurphy, W. G., Marysville\nNash, J. T., San Francisco\nPage, R. E. (Mrs.), Nashville, Tenn.\nPattan, M. H., Wallula, Wash. [sic]\nPearson, I. M., Vacaville\nPearson, J. R. (Mrs.), Vacaville\nPepin, J. J. (Mrs.), Santa Cruz\nPerrine, P., Alameda\nPriest, W. H., Stockton\nProctor, J. P. (Mrs.), Santa Rosa\nRagsdale, M. S., Marysville\nRawlins, T. F., Butte City\nRayland, T. S. (Mrs.), Pacific Grove\nRenshaw, A. M., Watsonville\nRice, W. A., Saratoga\nRifenberick, Chas., Green Castle, Mo.\nRoberson, Robert, Boulder Creek\nRobinson, S. H., Woodland\nRussell, Geo., Marysville\nSanford, Bettie (Mrs.), College City\nSanford, Mamie S., Grass Valley\nSaxe, E. E., Irvington\nSchlosser, C., Wheatland\nScott, Samuel, Saratoga\nShadle, H., Madison\nShellhammer, Leta, Woodland\nSherman, M. (Mrs.), Merced\nShoemaker, G. (Mrs.), Healdsburg\nSlawson, Anna A. (Mrs.), Sacramento\nSparks, J. C. (Mrs.), Oakland\nSpencer, N. E. (Mrs.), Butte City\nStafford, Geo. P., Acampo\nStafford, J. W., Acampo\nStratton, H. M., Newman\nSurbough, J. T. (Mrs.), Madera\nThomas, B. T. (Mrs.), Santa Barbara\nThomas, Sallie (Miss), Santa Rosa\n\n�Thomas, Sue L. (Mrs.), Gilroy\nThomasson, W. J., Gilroy\nThompson, R. M., Los Gatos\nTout, E., Panoche\nTrantham, W. H. B., Los Gatos\nTraver, Panoche\n\nTroy, M. P. (Mrs.), Santa Rosa\nTuttle, Dexter, Colusa\nWaddell, H. C., Petaluma\nWalbridge, H., Ventura\nWilliams, Frank, Vacaville\n\n1891 Nov 19\nSource:\nF. A. Hihn & F. A. Hihn & Co. Agreements, Deeds, and Leases Vol. 9,\n[Page Number] 19 11/19/1891\nEntry # 2848\nIt is hereby agreed by the undersigned that the time of the bond of sale of lots 156, 157 and\n158, in Garfield Park, as numbered and designated on map marked “Garfield Park, Number\nOne”, filed June 7th, 1890” in the office of the County Recorder of Santa Cruz County, as per\nagreement between F.A. Hihn and the State Convention of the Christian Churches of California\ndated October 16th, 1889 is hereby extended to September 1st, 1892.\nSanta Cruz, Cal. November 19th, 1891.\nF.A. Hihn Co\nBy A.C. Hihn Pres\nState Convention of the\nChristian Churches\nF.C. Hodges, pres\nE.B. Ware\n1896\nSource:\nSanta Cruz County, a faithful reproduction in print and photography of its\nclimate, capabilities and beauties. Prologue signed: Phil Francis. Cover title: Beautiful Santa\nCruz County, California. San Francisco : Press of H.S. Crocker, 1896. p. 22\nThe Christian Church.\nThis church is situated in Garfield Park, where the annual convention of this body of Christians\nis held every summer. The tabernacle is a large building with pleasant surroundings. The land\nwas donated by Messrs. Fitch, King, Bushnell, Younglove, Hihn and others, and a cash donation\nof $3,000 was guaranteed. Rev. David Walk and Mr. H. F. Vandy [sic] were largely instrumental\nin getting this Christian encampment located at Santa Cruz, and the Santa Cruz Surf, which took\nan active part in this enterprise. This church has a good membership, which every summer is\ngreatly augmented by members of this faith who come from a distance to the annual convention,\nand to camp at Garfield Park for their summer outing. [The tabernacle is pictured on p. 23.]\n\n�1931 Dec 28\nSource:\nSanta Cruz News\n\n1931 Dec 28 2:4\n\nUSE URGED OF TABERNACLE IN GARFIELD PARK\n———\nAuthorization for the use of the 41-year-old tabernacle in Garfield Park for any\ninterdenominational purposes for which no admission charge is made has been received by the\nRev. D. L. Hughes,, custodian of the old octagonal two-story building, from the state board of\nthe Christian church, he announced today.\nThe tabernacle, under the permission, might be used for presentation of oratorios by the\njoined choirs of the churches of the city, or for any church union meeting. The only provision is\nthat the meetings must not be for profit and no door charge must be made.\nFor City-Wide Meetings\nThe state board of the Christian church has also given permission to Mr. Hughes to grant use\nof the tabernacle for any state conference of any denomination, or for any city-wide or public\nmeeting, with the exception that it may not be used for any political purpose.\nThe old tabernacle, in a circular plot, with three streets in concentric circles around it, has\nbeen a landmark since it was built by the Christian church of California in 1890, since which\ntime it has been used for the annual summer church conferences. The land not only for the\nchurch but for many building lots which were sold to church members was donated by F. A.\nHihn, pioneer capitalist of this county; by Abram King of San Jose and a number of others.\nOratorio Society\nMr. Hughes has already taken up with President Lester H. Wessendorf of the chamber of\ncommerce the project of organizing a city-wide oratorical society or some similar project and has\nbeen invited by Mr. Wessendorf to present his plan to the directors of the chamber.\n\n�“I can think of no greater attraction to the better class of people, nor better advertisement for\nSanta Cruz, than to have it known that a permanent musical organization presents here year after\nyear the great oratories and musical productions of that sort,” said Mr. Hughes today.\n“The seating capacity of the tabernacle is as great as any auditorium in the city available for\nthe sort of musical events I have in mind and the acoustics are good.”\n1935 Aug 5\nSource:\n\nSanta Cruz Evening News\n\n1935 Aug 5\n\n1:2-3 accompanying by photo\n\nGarfield Park Tabernacle, 45 Years Old, Taken By Fire\n———\nHad Been Home Of Many State-Wide Church Meets\n———\nC O S T $ 1 4, 0 0 0\n———\nThe Garfield Park tabernacle, 45 year old octagonal church building which has housed scores\nof state-wide church meetings, burned at 2 o’clock this morning.\nNo theory as to the cause of the blaze was advanced except a guess that faulty electric wiring\nmay have started it.\nThe huge old church structure was a mass of flames when the fire apparatus reached it just\nbefore 2 o’clock. The roof fell in within five minutes. Indication were, it was said by Assistant\nFire Chief Fred L. Lewis, that the blaze had started in the lower part of the building.\nJust a week ago yesterday the eightieth annual conference of the Christian churches of\nnorthern California closed there.\nBlaze Is Quick One\nThe telephoned alarm came to the fire station about 1:50 o’clock this morning. The roof\ntimbers fell 10 minutes later and by 2:45 the walls had collapsed and the eight-sided pit of stone\nfoundation walls was a bowl of flaming timbers.\nThe Garfield Park tabernacle was dedicated August 31, 1890. It had been built on land\ndonated by F. A. Hihn of Santa Cruz and Abram King of San Jose, who also gave additional\nacreage which was laid out in lots and sold to raise a building fund.\nMr. Hihn was said to have been instrumental in laying out streets in concentric circles\naround the tabernacle, having obtained the idea from a city in Europe which he had\nvisited.\nLaid Out By Churchmen\nSanta Cruz was selected as the site for the building for the annual conferences of the\nChristian church after a year and a half of consideration of other places. The Rev. David Walk of\nMemphis, Tenn., father of the Rev. George Edward Walk, then pastor of a church in San Jose,\nhad laid out Bethany City, in Indiana, as a Christian church center. He was visiting his son and\ncame to Santa Cruz for a rest and promoted\n(Continued on Page Two)\nTabernacle Is Taken By Fire\n(Continued from Page One)\nGarfield park here, becoming resident manager of the real estate interests.\nThe Rev. L. B. Wilkes was president of the Garfield Park association and the Rev. George\nEdward Walk was secretary.\nCircles Were Named\nBethany circle, Wilkes circle and Errett circle were named at the time.\n\n�The original cost of the building was $14,000. Insurance was carried on it, it was said today\nby the Rev. C. E. Morris, pastor of the Garfield Park church, although he did not know how\nmuch. The Rev. Milo Smith, secretary of the Christian church conference, arrived here this\nafternoon from San Francisco to consider the situation.\n1941 Nov 30\nSource:\nSanta Cruz Sentinel\n\n1941 Nov 30 12:\n\nEIGHT SIDED TABERNACLE\nBeginning of the work making the Garfield Park circle a public playground under city lease\nbrings up stories of the establishment of the “circles” and of the huge octagonal wooden structure\nwhich, until seven or eight years ago, was the place of the annual gatherings of the Christian\nchurches of northern California.\nThe idea of a tabernacle which would be the center of a colony of summer homes owned by\nchurch people was advanced by the Rev. David Walk of Memphis, Tenn., who was in California\nin the late eighties visiting his son, the Rev. George Edward Walk of San Jose.\nTwo of the large land owners in the Garfield Park area were F. A. Hihn of Santa Cruz and\nAbram King of San Jose. To Hihn, the Santa Cruz millionaire, is attributed the idea of the\ncircular streets, with others radiating like spokes from the central grounds. The scheme\nwas patterned after a city in the Duchy of Brunswick he had known in his youth.\nThe tabernacle itself cost $14,000, a considerable sum in those days of redwood sawmills. Its\narchitects were Damkroger and Saunders of Santa Cruz, who donated their services. Much of the\nland donated to the company was sold in small lots by the Rev. Walk of San Jose, who became\nresident manager of the Garfield Park Association. Its president in 1890, when the tabernacle\nwas completed, was the Rev. L. B. Wilkes. Two of the circular streets bear their names. What is\nnow Woodrow avenue was originally Garfield avenue.\nThe tabernacle was dedicated on August 21, 1890, and used yearly by the church until fire\ntook it in the early 1930's. During the times the church conferences were in session the circular\ngrounds were crowded with tents in which the visiting churchmen camped during their week or\nso in Santa Cruz.\nNow a WPA crew is laying out a croquet court there.\n* * *\n1995 Dec 5\nSource:\nSan Jose Mercury News Tuesday, 1995-12-05 1B:4-6 & 2B :1-3 with UCSC\nSpec Coll photo “California’s first locust trees made Locust Street a landmark” on 1B.\nSanta Cruz street names spell history\nBY ROSS ERIC GIBSON\nSpecial to the Mercury News\n\n————\n“Even The Circles, on Woodrow Avenue, began as circular footpaths to campsites around the\nGarfield Park Tabernacle.”\n\n�"]]]]]]]]],["collection",{"collectionId":"8"},["elementSetContainer",["elementSet",{"elementSetId":"1"},["name","Dublin Core"],["description","The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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