Lovely Lane Methodist Church

Lovely Lane United Methodist Church
First Methodist Episcopal Church (Lovely Lane United Methodist Church), 1895.
Location 2200 St. Paul St., Baltimore, Maryland
Coordinates 39°18′52″N 76°36′57″W / 39.31444°N 76.61583°WCoordinates: 39°18′52″N 76°36′57″W / 39.31444°N 76.61583°W
Built 1884
Architect White, Stanford
Architectural style Romanesque
Governing body Private
NRHP Reference #

73002189

[1]
Added to NRHP May 25, 1973

Lovely Lane United Methodist Church, formerly known as First Methodist Episcopal Church, is a historic United Methodist church located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

The building was designed by renowned architect Stanford White (1853–1906) in the Romanesque Revival style, and completed in 1884. It is patterned after the early churches and basilicas in Ravenna, Italy. The exterior is constructed of a gray ashlar granite with limited ornamentation. It features a square bell tower patterned after the campanile of the 12th-century church of Santa Maria, Abbey of Pomposa, near Ravenna. The pulpit is a reproduction of the one at St. Apollinaris, in Ravenna.

Charles L. Carson was supervising architect for McKim, Mead & White during construction of the church.[2] Lovely Lane Methodist Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.[1]

Lovely Lane Chapel

The congregation is known as the "Mother Church of American Methodism."[3] The original Lovely Lane Chapel or Meeting House was the scene of the 1784 Christmas Conference, at which the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States was founded and Francis Asbury and Thomas Coke were ordained as its first bishops.

The chapel was abandoned in 1786 and demolished. It was replaced (first) by the Merchants Club, and now by Baltimore International College.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-15.
  2. ↑ Dorsey, John; Dilts, James D. (1997). A Guide to the Architecture of Baltimore (3rd ed.). Centreville, Maryland: Tidewater Publishers. pp. 396–397. ISBN 0-87033-477-8.
  3. ↑ "Maryland Historical Trust". Lovely Lane Methodist Church, Baltimore City. Maryland Historical Trust. 2008-11-21.

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