F ew buildings have had the intimate care in planning and scrupulous attention to detail in construction, which have been lavished upon the Mariemont Memorial Church. This mirrors the deep personal piety and perspective of values belonging to the founder of Mariemont, and the donor of the Church to the community, Mary Muhlenberg Emery. Indeed, as a gesture illustrative of her faith, the Church was the first begun of the many structures in Mariemont. At the heart of the little village, in itself the consummation of a long dream in her heart, she put a place of worship as a perpetual gift to the people of community, with its tall spire as a constant reminder of the insight of the ancient psalmist:

Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that built it.

So a spiritual idea is behind Mariemont, and it is well for those whose dwelling-place it is to remember the fact.