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Wright Square: Lutheran Church of the Ascension

Founded in 1741; located on Wright Square. In 1844, a new church with six massive columns in Grecian Doric style was dedicated at the present site. Considered �one of the ornaments of the town,� a major renovation was begun in 1875, the results of which gave the building its present appearance.

Wright Square
1. United States Post Office
(1898) 127 Bull Street. Massive Georgia marble and granite building with intricate friezes under eaves.
2. Juliette Gordon Low Girl Scout National Center
(Wayne-Gordon House Museum, c.1818). An imposing Regency mansion in shades of brown; birthplace of Juliette Gordon Low.
3. Old Chatham County Courthouse
(1889) 124 Bull Street. Romanesque yellow brick and terra cotta on granite base.
4. Lutheran Church of the Ascension
(1879) Bull Street on Wright Square. Soaring French Gothic spires; founded by the Lutherans from Salzburg, Austria.

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