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METROPOLITAN UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

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1886. 30522 Dr. William P. Hytche Blvd.
  • (Lisa Pfueller Davidson and Catherine C. Lavoie)

The trustees of John Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church purchased this lot, the former site of Somerset County’s eighteenth-century jail, in 1884. The Reverend Joseph R. Waters required a more centrally located and larger church for his growing African American congregation, which had been founded in 1841 on a rural site outside of town. The cornerstone was laid in 1886 for this Gothic Revival brick church that features a tall bell tower at the front-gabled entrance. The tower is topped by a pyramidal roof and the belfry openings are decorated with original spindlework.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Lisa Pfueller Davidson and Catherine C. Lavoie
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Timeline

  • 1886

    Built

What's Nearby

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Citation

Lisa Pfueller Davidson and Catherine C. Lavoie, "METROPOLITAN UNITED METHODIST CHURCH", [Princess Anne, Maryland], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MD-01-ES84.

Print Source

Buildings of Maryland, Lisa Pfueller Davidson and Catherine C. Lavoie. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2022, 137-138.

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