St. Francis Street Methodist Church

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]

St. Francis Street Methodist Church
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
St. Francis Street Methodist Church in 2008.
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Location	Mobile, Alabama
Coordinates	30°41′31″N 88°2′40″W
Built	1896
Architect	Watkins & Johnson
Architectural style	Late Victorian, Other
NRHP reference No.	84000690 [1]
Added to NRHP	January 5, 1984

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. "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. Lyle Lankford, Women to the Rescue, Vanderbilt Magazine, Summer 2009