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St. John’s Methodist Church

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1910–1922, Flanders and Flanders. 201 S. Ferguson St.

This church’s monumental corner tower is visible from the public square several blocks away. The complex massing and blend of Prairie Style with Gothic Revival features make it a near duplicate of James Edward Flanders’s now demolished Trinity Methodist Church (1903) in Dallas. The corners of the cross-gabled plan are marked by towers, three about the same height as the main roofline and the substantially taller northwest tower over the entrance. The tower roofs are Flanders’s signature: short, wide spires with flared eaves. While the overall emphasis is on verticality, stringcourses and extended eaves reinforce the church’s Prairie Style character. The church replaced a small frame church of 1900. Construction on the new church started in 1910, but it took two years to complete and another ten to finish the interior. The church now stands isolated, surrounded by vacant blocks as residential neighborhoods moved to the outer edges of town.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

Swenson Land and Cattle Company Building
Stamford City Hall
U.S. Post Office
Stamford Insurance Agency (Bryant-Link Building)
Stamford Carnegie Library

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "St. John’s Methodist Church", [Stamford, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-SB5.

Print Source

Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 299-300.

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