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			<titleproper encodinganalog="title">Preliminary Guide to the Pullman Community Congregational Church Records
				<date encodinganalog="date" calendar="gregorian" era="ce" normal="1914/2013">1914-2013</date></titleproper>
		  
			<titleproper type="filing" altrender="nodisplay">Pullman Community Congregational Church Records</titleproper>
		  
			<author encodinganalog="creator">Finding aid prepared by Steven Bingo</author>
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			<publisher encodinganalog="publisher">Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
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			<date calendar="gregorian" encodinganalog="date" normal="2020">© 2020</date> 
		 
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		<creation>Finding aid encoded by Suzanne James-Bacon.
			<date normal="2020" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">2020</date></creation>
		
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			<corpname encodinganalog="852$a">Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections</corpname>
		  
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	 	<unitid encodinganalog="099" countrycode="us" repositorycode="waps" type="collection">MSSM.038</unitid>
		
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			<corpname encodinganalog="110" role="creator" rules="rda">Community Congregational Church (Pullman, Wash.)</corpname> </origination> 
	 	<unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">Preliminary Guide to the Pullman Community Congregational Church Records</unittitle>
		
	 	<unitdate type="inclusive" encodinganalog="245$f" era="ce" calendar="gregorian" datechar="" certainty="" normal="1914/2013">1914-2013</unitdate>
		
	 	<physdesc> <extent encodinganalog="300$a">7 Linear feet</extent>
	 		<extent encodinganalog="300$a">6 Boxes + 5 Tubes</extent>
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	 	<abstract encodinganalog="5203_">This collection contains materials created by the Pullman Community Congregational Church from 1914-2013.</abstract> 
			<physloc>(MASC STAFF USE) MS.1998.14: 2-8-24-3; MS.2001.05: 2-14-23-4; MS.2005.05:
				2-13-27-5; MS.2008.28: 2-10-1-5; MS.2014.35: 2-5-25-7; MS.2017.03: 2-13-27-5 (boxed
				with MS.2005.05).</physloc> 
		<langmaterial>Collection materials are in <language encodinganalog="546" langcode="eng">English</language></langmaterial>
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			<p>The Pullman Community Congregational Church was originally incorporated in 1886 as
				the First Congregational Church of Pullman. It was the first church formally
				organized in Pullman, although a loosely-organized Methodist congregation preceded
				it by four years. The Congregationalists located their church building at the corner
				of High and Paradise Streets on Pullman's Pioneer Hill, rebuilding at the same
				location when their structure burned in the fire which destroyed much of the town in
				1890. The church entered into a federation with a Pullman Baptist congregation in
				1913, after which a new building was constructed on the outskirts of the Washington
				State University campus. The federation, however, tended to be heavily dominated by
				the Congregationalist element; consequently the Baptist congregation lost the
				recognition of the Baptist conventions. This resulted in the creation of a new and
				separate Baptist congregation and virtual nullification of the federation.
				Recognizing that the Federated Church was in reality but another manifestation of
				the First Congregational Church, the pastor and officers reincorporated the
				organization as the Community Congregational Church in 1937. The Community
				Congregational Church continued to use the Federated Church buildings and facilities
				after 1937. In 1954, the old Federated Church building was converted to meeting
				rooms and a new church building was constructed in an adjacent location. In 1961,
				the church entered into the United Church of Christ, a national denomination
				encompassing Congregational and Reformed churches. In 1990, the church drafted a
				constitution and in 1999 the church underwent renovation. As early as 1954, the
				church's Women's Fellowship opened The Thrift Shop, which is still in business as of
				2017. It is Pullman's oldest second hand clothing store.</p>
		</bioghist> 
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			<p>This collection contains materials created by the Pullman Community Congregational
				Church from 1914-2013. The collection consists primarily of reports by the church
				and its committees, photographs, and church publications. This includes annual
				reports from 1958-1999, the church's constitution and by-laws, newsletters, event
				programs, documents related to the construction of a new church in 1954 and the 1999
				remodel, the 100 year anniversary celebration, and photographs of church members and
				activities. The collection also contains oral histories recorded audio cassette tape
				and a video recording of the 100 year anniversary celebration in 1986.</p>
			<p>MS 2014-35 contains a bound "source book" with historical records compiled by C.M.
				Brewster and others, church reports, newsletters, transcriptions of oral history
				interviews, historic photographs (including a slideshow of the church's history),
				committee and board minutes, and miscellaneous papers.</p>
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	 	<p>This is an unprocessed collection. Arrangement reflects a pre-existing order from the records’ creators or previous custodians. </p> 
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	 	<p>This collection is open and available for research use.</p>
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	 	<p>Copyright restrictions may apply.</p>
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	 	<p>[Item description] </p>
	 	<p>Preliminary Guide to the Pullman Community Congregational Church Records, 1914-2013 (MSSM.038) </p>
	 	<p>Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.</p> 
	 </prefercite> 
	 <acqinfo encodinganalog="541" id="a19"> 
			<p>The Community Congregational Church donated these materials to the Washington State
				University Libraries in multiple installments beginning in 1998. Received from Ed
				and Margery Bennett and Monique Slipher (MS.1998.14, MS.2001.05, MS.2005.05,
				MS.2014.35, MS.2017.03). The acquisition of a portion of the collection was not
				documented (MS.2008.28).</p>
	 </acqinfo> 
	 <relatedmaterial encodinganalog="5441_" id="a6"> 
	 	<p>Pullman Community Congregational Church Records, 1886-1974 <extref href="https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv87895">(Cage 314)</extref> </p>
	 	<p>Pullman Community Congregational Church Records, 1891-1978 <extref href="https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv43093">(Cage 448)</extref> </p>
	 	<p>Blackburn Collection of Pullman Community Congregational Church Records, 1961-1977 <extref href="https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv27019">(Cage 480)</extref> </p>
	 	<p>West, Otho. I Remember and the Congregationalists. Pullman, Wash.: Community Congregational Church, 1970</p>
	 	<p>Community Congregational United Church of Christ. Centennial History, 1886-1986 : Community Congregational United Church of Christ, Pullman, Washington. [Community Congregational United Church]; 1986.</p>
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	 		<corpname role="subject" encodinganalog="610" rules="rda">Community Congregational Church (Pullman, Wash.) -- Records and correspondence</corpname>		  
	 		<corpname role="subject" encodinganalog="610" rules="rda">Community Congregational United Church of Christ (Pullman, Wash.) -- Records and correspondence</corpname>		  
	 		<corpname role="creator" encodinganalog="710" rules="rda">Community Congregational United Church of Christ (Pullman, Wash.)</corpname>		  
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	 		<subject encodinganalog="650" source="lcsh">Congregational churches -- Washington (State) -- Pullman -- Records and correspondence</subject>		  
	 		<subject encodinganalog="650" source="lcsh">Church records and registers -- Washington (State) -- Pullman</subject>
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