Abstract The Villa Park Congregational Church was organized, with the help of Rev. George Rose, in 1890 and construction on the first church building was completed by October of that year. In 1913, land was purchased at the intersection of West Seventh Avenue and King Street, in the Barnum neighborhood, for the purpose of constructing a new church building. That same year, the church formally voted to become the Seventh Avenue Congregational Church. The church struggled to flourish in the following...