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Unitarian Church of Urbana
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

(2013)
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Location	1209 W. Oregon St. Urbana, Illinois
Coordinates	40°6′24″N 88°13′30″W / 40.10667°N 88.22500°W / 40.10667; -88.22500
Built	1908
Architect	Root & Siemens C.F. Smith
Architectural style	Bungalow/Craftsman Gothic Revival Tudor Revival
NRHP reference No.	91000572^[1]
Added to NRHP	May 13, 1991

The Channing-Murray Foundation, resides in the former Unitarian Church at 1209 West Oregon Street in Urbana, Illinois. It is the Unitarian Universalist campus ministry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It includes a chapel and a vegetarian restaurant, Red Herring.^[2] The Foundation was established in 1954 after a merger between the Unitarian and Universalist churches in Urbana. At the time, it was also as a merger of the Murray Club of the Universalist Church in Urbana, and the Young People's Club or Unity Club of the Unitarian Church. The building was constructed in 1908 as the Unitarian Church^[3]

The Unitarian Church of Urbana building is architecturally significant, with design by Root & Siemens, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

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↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
↑ "Red Herring Vegetarian Restaurant". channingmurray.
↑ Anderson, Jane C. "History of Channing-Murray Foundation and its Red Herring" Archived November 5, 2013, at the Wayback Machine Unitarian-Universalist Church of Urbana-Champaign, 1979

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Former	Ater-Jaques House Bailey–Rugg Building Chi Psi Fraternity House Mahomet Graded School
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