A "new arrival" at the sight of "the first church building in [Chicago]," the Presbyterian meeting house built on Clark Street in 1834, in Edwin O. Gale, Reminiscences of early Chicago and vicinity (Chicago: Revell, 1902), 361. I was put onto this by Richard Kieckhefer, Theology in stone: church architecture from Byzantium to Berkeley (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), 201.Though I'm certainly no fan of ugly churches, somebody should probably have reminded this wag of a certain manger (φάτνη).
