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August 2001
January 2002. The gabled wall at right no longer stands.
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First Methodist Church
A second abandoned church stood at Summit and 13th Streets; it suffered a massive fire some time before 2001. The entire roof caved in, leaving almost nothing but the stone walls. When I drove past a second time in January 2002, it appeared that a few of the stones were being stacked for salvage.
Built as First Methodist Church in 1887, with a 1904 addition, the building was home to the Mount Pisgah Baptist Church from 1976 till a roof collapse in 1995. It was finally demolished in the summer of 2002.
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August 2001.
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This vintage postcard view shows the church when it was new. How could this community ever afford to maintain such a grandiose, overwrought building?
Continue on to see the fate of the salvaged towers....
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