[3] On May 17, 1983, Sixth Church was made a locally designated historic site by the city of Milwaukee.

[4] Mary Baker Eddy discovered Christian Science in Massachusetts in 1866 and founded the first church in 1879 in Boston.

In 1883 the dentist Dr. Silas Sawyer and his wife Jenny of Milwaukee traveled to Boston to study Eddy's ideas on healing.

They hired architect Elmer Grey, who was then based in Milwaukee, but later moved to California where he designed Christian Science churches in Los Angeles and Long Beach.

Inside is a nave with side aisles, lit by amber windows in the dormers above.