After the 1904 fire, the Methodist congregation rebuilt on its previous site, apparently using plans by Badgley and Nicklas of Cleveland, Ohio. The Gothic Revival, auditorium-plan church features a Tudoresque porch with open woodwork between square towers. Attached to the church by a hyphen, the E. Anderson Educational Building by Dean and Pursell of Jackson is a New Formalist version of Gothic with a delicate arcade.
Nearby, the Gothic Revival, auditorium-plan First Presbyterian Church (1905–1906; 231 N. Washington) was designed by Diboll and Owen of New Orleans. The three-tiered corner tower (it lost its spire in a 1933 tornado), which projects from the building rather too massively, dominates the two primary facades; a small cupola tops the church’s pyramidal roof. An education building (1952, E. B. Phillips) attached at the rear is also Gothic Revival.
Nearby at N. Main and E. Madison streets, the Romanesque Revival St. Mary’s Catholic Church (1905–1907) has a cruciform plan. It is faced with red pressed brick, and its two corner towers frame an arresting round-arched terra-cotta portal with multiple jambs and a large rose window. After contractor W. O. Glass died in the yellow fever epidemic of 1905, his sometime partner William Morford took over the project. Jack Decell remodeled (1950s) the interior, which was completed by the Conrad Schmitt Studios.