the expansion was approximately $85,000. Present congregation As of 2008, the church's congregation has 122 members. The Reverend David Smith is the current (2010) pastor. While the recent membership total reflects a decline from the pre-World War II peak years, it represents a small increase from earlier in the decade. The city's population has declined since the 1970s, as the region has suffered from the effects of a troubled American auto industry. However, Hartford City's First Presbyterian Church is still “a monument of which they [the community] may be justly proud.” The church conducts services in the city's historic district, in a historic building, located on land purchased in 1868. Situated at the corner of Franklin and High Streets, much of the church building looks the same as the outstanding structure constructed in 1892 and 1893. The edifice has existed in three different centuries – may it continue into a fourth. See also Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Notes References External links Joseph Wood Evans Memorial Special Collections and Archives Center - Presbyterian Archives Collections Churches completed in 1893 Towers completed in 1893 National Register of Historic Places in Blackford County, Indiana Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana Bell towers in the United States Presbyterian churches in Indiana 19th-century Presbyterian church buildings in the United States Richardsonian Romanesque architecture in Indiana Romanesque Revival church buildings in Indiana Buildings and structures in Blackford County, Indiana