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Designed by architect J. H. W. Hawkins, a native of New York, Dietz Memorial United Methodist Church is historically known as Saint Matthias’ Episcopal Church. Saint Matthias’ is architecturally significant as a record of a brief period in American Episcopal Church building history during which Romanesque Revival elements won acceptance. The structure is also important as a rare Midwestern example of a church design influenced by H. H. Richardson’s renowned 1872-77 Trinity Church in Boston. (This building is also listed in the National Register of Historic Places.)
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