Our Washington Park United Church Of Christ began as a Sunday School class which met in the George Hewitt home near Downing and Alameda about 1909. The class met through World War I, assembling later in a tent on the site of Steele School, and then on lots given by Stephen Knight at 400 S. Williams St. Members constructed the basement room where classes and Worship services were held until 1921. For four years, the building stood empty until