Celebration at 463 K Street SW Church
Kelsey Temple Church of God in Christ: Designed by Maurice Russel Rhoads in 1921 as the Columbia Heights Christian Church, this church has played a significant role in the development of Columbia Heights.
The years immediately after World War I were a period of intense development of neighboring residential and commercial blocks, capped by the opening of the nearby Tivoli Theatre in 1924. The influx of…