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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Location251 St. Francis St.,
Mobile, Alabama
Coordinates 30°41′31″N88°2′40″W / 30.69194°N 88.04444°W / 30.69194; -88.04444
Built1896
ArchitectWatkins & Johnson
Architectural styleLate Victorian
NRHP reference No. 84000690 [1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 5, 1984

St. Francis Street Methodist Church, officially St. Francis Street United Methodist Church, is a historic former 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]

The church closed in 1993, and in 2015 was renovated for use as a concert and events venue known as The Steeple. [4] [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. "St. Francis Street United Methodist Church". UMC.org. The United Methodist Church.
  3. 1 2 Lyle Lankford, Women to the Rescue, Vanderbilt Magazine, Summer 2009
  4. Boyd, Jared (August 22, 2016). "Formerly a church, concert venue The Steeple opens in Mobile". al.com. Retrieved November 26, 2020.
  5. "The Story". The Steeple on St. Francis. Retrieved November 26, 2020.