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Type: Gothic
Revival with Tudor details
Architects: R.H. Hunt Company of Dallas and Chattanooga
Groundbreaking: December 1926 - Completion: February 1928
Cost: $496,620 |
The church on
a snowy Amarillo day.
Photo by Wes Reeves, 2002 |
Organized as
the Methodist Episcopal Church, South in November of 1888, the congregation
was the first to be organized in Amarillo.
The first church building in Amarillo
was the Union Church of Parker's Chapel built in 1889. The building
served many demoninations, but the Methodist congregation (being the
first) held the deed. Within a few years the other denominations built
their own church buildings and moved out.
Parker's Chapel was soon outgrown by the Methodists and in 1902 a
Gothic Revival frame building was built at a cost of $4,000. Known
to most people as the "White Church," it served for a mere five years
before being moved across Polk Street to make way for new construction.
In 1907 a brick Romanesque Revival style church was built on the corner
of Polk and Eighth Streets for $45,000. |
Polk Street Methodist
Episcopal Church
Early 1900s photo courtesy texasoldphotos.com |
In 1908, the
name was changed from Polk Street Methodist Episcopal Church, South
to Polk Street Methodist Church. In 1926 the congregation had once
again outgrown its Romanesque Revival building, resulting in the construction
of the present building.
© John
Troesser |
Polk Street Methodist
Church Early 1940s
photo courtesy texasoldphotos.com |
| "The
Polk Street United Methodist Church is a near twin of the First United
Methodist Church in downtown Dallas.
It was completed in 1928 and designed by J. Roy Smith and R.H. Hunt
and Company (of Chattanooga and Dallas)." - Wes Reeves |
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