Wayfarers' Chapel Portuguese Bend, California

Abstract/Description: Color postcard image shows view of Wayfarers' Chapel. Narcissa Cox Vanderlip contributed the 3 1/2-acre site for the chapel, for which the cornerstone was dedicated on July 16, 1949. Lloyd Wright, son of the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright, was hired to design the chapel which opened in 1951. Postcard printed on reverse with "RANCHO PALOS VERDES, CALIFORNIA / The Wayfarers' Chapel, near Portuguese Bend -- built by The Church of The New Jerusalem as a national memorial to Emanuel Swedenborg, upon whose teachings the Church was founded." Also printed with "'Plastichrome' by Colourpicture, Boston 15, Mass, U.S.A.," "Distributed by 'Golden West' 2583 Maine Ave., L.B. 6 Calif.," "GW2137" and "Color by Geo. E. Watson Studio."
Subject(s): Chapels--California, Southern
Portuguese Bend (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.)
Wayfarers Chapel (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.)
1951-1960
Palos Verdes Peninsula (Calif.)