On April 1, 2021 the Heritage Calgary board approved the following site to be updated to the Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources.
Evangelical Lutheran Immanuel Church 43 4 Street NE (Crescent Heights) Year Built: ca. 1902
Re-evaluated as a City Wide Historic Resource
The Immanuel Church is valued as a symbol of the early roots of the Immanuel Lutheran congregation and as the first purpose-built German church in Calgary (Institutional Value – City Wide Significance).
The church is significant for its association to Dr. John W. Lucas, who operated a successful evangelical, trans-denominational church for two decades out of the former German church (Person Value – Community Wide Significance).
The church is highly valued as an early and well-preserved example of vernacular Gothic-Revival architecture in the city (Style Value – City Wide Significance).
The Evangelical Lutheran Immanuel Church is significant as a marker of the substantial German population that settled in the Riverside neighbourhood beginning in the 1890s (Symbolic Value – City Wide Significance).