Homewood Presbyterian Church established in 1909 was organized under the auspices of Fifth Presbyterian Church to serve the needs of its members who were abandoning the Near North Side and in particular the upscale Oak Lake Addition because of changes occurring there, as well as first and second-generation Scandinavians and Germans who were establishing homes in the middle-class area west of Penn Avenue North. The congregation worshipped first in a small frame chapel on the corner of Penn Avenue North and Plymouth before building a grey stucco church with white trim at 2309 Plymouth Avenue North. They continued to worship there until 1948 when a second dramatic demographic change resulted in a decision to sell the building to another congregation whose members were moving into the neighborhood, Kenesseth Israel Synagogue.