Dark red-brown brick and strongly contrasting white stringcourses, window frames, copings, and pinnacles make a bold statement for this Early English Gothic–styled church by Meador of Fort Worth. The raised basement elevates the main floor, with a monumental stairway rising from the sidewalk to a gabled frontispiece dominated by a large pointed-arched window above the entrance. Corner towers are strongly reinforced with compound piers that rise to tall pinnacles.
One the next block at 301 S. Mulberry, the Masonic Building (c. 1922, W. G. Clarkson and Company) is faced with red-brown brick matching that of the church. A low ground story forms a podium for the two-story-high upper story, with tall round-arched windows that encompass the second and third stories.
Behind First United Methodist at 215 Lamar Street is the First Christian Church (1907), a wooden church with a Greek cross plan and a simple round-arched entrance porch carried on three plain columns that gives the building a house-like appearance. The corner boards of the double-drop wood siding form thin Ionic pilasters with little capitals at the continuous cornice.