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Louisville. The book includes some scenes of buildings in Louisville, in addition to containing photos of <br />members of the Armed Forces from Louisville who served in World War II. While it is undated, it is <br />believed to have come out in the late 1940s. The following photo from the book is significant because it <br />shows the first stage of the rear addition, before the second stage of cinder block construction was <br />added to it. <br />First Baptist Church <br />On August 30, 1957, the Louisville Times reported on the progress of the next addition: "Construction <br />was started Monday for the addition to the Sunday school department of the Baptist Church. There will <br />be a kitchen, dining room and recreation space in the basement of the 21 by 28 foot new addition and <br />Sunday school rooms on the main floor." This article and a 1958 article about the dedication of the new <br />space appear in Appendix IV. The 1958 article specifically states, "The new annex, a 22 by 34 foot <br />building with full basement, was added to the west end of the first annex at the west of the church <br />proper." This indicates that the rear addition was added in at least two parts in 1946 and 1958. (A look <br />at the area at the back of the Baptist Church today shows that the additions appear to have been made <br />in stages, in that the cinder blocks of the 1958 addition don't match up exactly with the cinder blocks of <br />the 1946 addition.) <br />The following excerpt of a 1962 aerial photo of Louisville shows the Baptist Church building at the <br />center, on the corner of Grant and Pine. Pine is seen as the street going vertically, and the view is facing <br />east. By that time, the rear cinder block additions extended all the way west to the alley, but the small <br />addition on the north side had not yet been added. <br />6 <br />