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First United Methodist Church

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1955, A. Hensel Fink. 900 S. Shoreline Blvd.

This church also relocated (see CC25) from the central business district. Converging historicist and modernistic forms in its design, the Philadelphia-based architect used the large front tower with tall spire to announce the entrance to Ocean Drive to its south.

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Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Gerald Moorhead et al., "First United Methodist Church", [Corpus Christi, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-01-CC28.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: Central, South, and Gulf Coast, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013, 245-245.

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