Heading north up what is actually the old orientation of Kingshighway before it was swept to the northwest to create the cloverleaf with Highway 40, we see that the normal streetwall of this part of the Grove is two or three story buildings, not six or seven. The old Lambskin Temple. a Masonic building, has been successfully converted into housing, not demolished.
This church is really a nice composition, an example of early Twentieth Century English Gothic Revival at only a “one story” height. At one point it was going to be incorporated as the lobby of a hotel. I guess that’s never happening.
Around the corner onto the 4500 block of Gibson, we see more of what is the normal and historic nature of the Grove, which is single family and two- or four-family housing.
