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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
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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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