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First United Methodist Church

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1917. 328 W. Washington St.

Built for a congregation organized in 1855 and replacing their church of the 1890s, this two-story Classical Revival cross-plan church in tawny-colored brick has red brick accents for arches, lintels, and frieze. Its most dramatic features are the tall Corinthian columns that outline the church’s rounded corner entrance and that follow the shape of the radial seating of the Akron plan interior. The corner curve is bracketed by the pedimented arms of the cross plan, with a drum and low dome continuing the curves of the central mass. The diagonal emphasis of the dome framed by lateral temple fronts is a scheme favored in the late work of James Edward Flanders. Although this project is not attributed to him, his influence is evident.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

Erath County Courthouse
Courthouse Square
Cage House
Stephenville Historical House Museum

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "First United Methodist Church", [Stephenville, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-WC16.

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, 250-250.

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