A world's fair, the 1876 Centennial Exhibition, was held in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, May 8, 2019, pp. B1, B5, "Several dozen buildings from the fair were moved to the then-burgeoning New Jersey Shore, according to a 1976 New York Times story. One of them, said to be Froebel's Model Kindergarten, became [this church]." See http://www.spscmp.org/history.htm.
| Publication date | May 09, 2019 |
A world's fair, the 1876 Centennial Exhibition, was held in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, May 8, 2019, pp. B1, B5, "Several dozen buildings from the fair were moved to the then-burgeoning New Jersey Shore, according to a 1976 New York Times story. One of them, said to be Froebel's Model Kindergarten, became [this church]." See http://www.spscmp.org/history.htm.
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