St. Francis Street Methodist Church
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St. Francis Street Methodist Church | |
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St. Francis Street Methodist Church in 2008. | |
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| Location | Mobile, Alabama |
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| Coordinates | 30°41′30″N 88°2′40″W / 30.69167°N 88.04444°WCoordinates: 30°41′30″N 88°2′40″W / 30.69167°N 88.04444°W |
| Built | 1896 |
| Architect | Watkins & Johnson |
| Architectural style | Late Victorian, Other |
| NRHP Reference # | [1] |
| Added to NRHP | January 5, 1984 |
St. Francis Street Methodist Church, officially St. Francis Street United Methodist Church, is a historic United Methodist Church building in Mobile, Alabama, United States.[2] The current structure was built in 1896 by the architectural firm of Watkins and Johnson. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 5, 1984.[1]
Holland Nimmons McTyeire (1824-1889) met his wife Amelia Townsend (1827-1891) in this church.[3] He later founded Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee thanks to his wife's cousin, Frank Armstrong Crawford Vanderbilt (1839-1885), who convinced her second husband, Cornelius Vanderbilt, the richest man in the United States at the time, to donate US$1 million for its creation.[3]
References
- 1 2 Staff (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
- ↑ "St. Francis Street United Methodist Church". UMC.org. The United Methodist Church.
- 1 2 Lyle Lankford, Women to the Rescue, Vanderbilt Magazine, Summer 2009
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