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FIRST METHODIST CHURCH

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1898, R. H. Hunt; 1924 addition, Frank R. McGeoy. 310 W. Washington St.

This, the oldest downtown church, was Hunt’s first commission in Greenwood. The red brick Romanesque Revival building includes several typical Hunt motifs, notably the multitiered square corner tower and the gabled facade with a central arcaded porch. The church’s Akron plan, where surrounding Sunday school rooms open to an auditorium with sliding or folding doors to create a larger space, was favored by Methodists. A separate Sunday school building added in 1924 is in a vaguely Collegiate Gothic style.

Nearby at 400 Howard Street, the Gothic Revival Episcopal Church of the Nativity (1902) is almost identical to Winona’s Immanuel Episcopal Church (see CH5), but reversed in plan. It has a gable front with a small rose window and a square corner tower and steeple. The Jacobean Revival parish hall (Rose Community Center) dates to 1920.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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What's Nearby

HISTORIC GREENWOOD-LEFLORE LIBRARY AND CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL BUILDING
LEFLORE COUNTY COURTHOUSE
GREENWOOD CITY HALL AND FIRE STATION NUMBER 1
WESLEY METHODIST CHURCH HISTORIC DISTRICT
MISSISSIPPI GARDEN CLUB HEADQUARTERS (WILLIAM AND ANNA WHITTINGTON HOUSE)

Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "FIRST METHODIST CHURCH", [Greenwood, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-DR50.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 130-130.

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