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Very Good condition. With a complimentary card from the Author, Publisher, and The Nevada State Journal, where tIn 1910, the American Baptist Home Mission Society sent Brewster Adams and his wife, Edna, to Reno, a town of 5,000, to serve the 45-member congregation and to minister to the local Native Americans. Adams graduated from divinity school in 1902. When Adams arrived in town, church services were being held in the Third Baptist Church building on the northwest corner of West Second and Chestnut (Arlington Avenue) streets. In 1917, under his leadership, the parishioners voted to tear down this building to build a larger church. The congregation hired Fred DeLongchamps to design the new building. They engaged contractor Andy Paterson to build the church using assorted colored tapestry bricks, or bricks laid in a horizontal, vertical and diagonal ornamental pattern. The design was finished in large terra cotta molding pieces manufactured by Reno Press Brick.hese essays originally appeared.…