Lovely Lane Methodist Church
Lovely Lane United Methodist Church | |
| File:First Methodist Episcopal Church (Lovely Lane United Methodist Church).jpg First Methodist Episcopal Church (Lovely Lane United Methodist Church), 1895. | |
| Lua error in Module:Location_map at line 411: Malformed coordinates value. | |
| Location | 2200 St. Paul Street, Baltimore, Maryland |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | Lua error in Module:Coordinates at line 489: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
| Area | 1 acre (0.40 ha) |
| Built | 1884 |
| Architect | Stanford White |
| Architectural style | Romanesque |
| NRHP reference No. | 73002189[1] |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | May 25, 1973 |
| Designated BCL | 1971 |
.jpg){kind=link}
Lovely Lane United Methodist Church (formerly known as First Methodist Episcopal Church and Lovely Lane Chapel) is a historic United Methodist church at 2200 St. Paul Street in the Charles Village neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
The building was designed by renowned New York City architect Stanford White in the Romanesque Revival style and completed in 1884 as the "Centennial Monument of American Methodism". It is patterned after the early churches and basilicas in Ravenna, Italy. The exterior is constructed of a gray ashlar granite with limited ornamentation. It features a square bell tower patterned after the campanile of the 12th century church of Santa Maria, Abbey of Pomposa, near Ravenna. The pulpit is a reproduction of the one at St. Apollinaris, in Ravenna.
Locally influential architect Charles L. Carson was supervising architect for the McKim, Mead & White firm during construction of the church.[2] Lovely Lane Methodist Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.[1]
The pipe organ in the church was built in 1930 by the Austin Organ Company as its Opus 1738. The case remains from the original organ of 1887, Hilborne L. Roosevelt’s Opus 336, which had been enlarged by Adam Stein (1844–1922) in 1914. The Austin instrument incorporates a few of the Roosevelt and Stein pipes. This organ was played in recital during the Organ Historical Society Convention in July 2024. [3] The Sunday School Chapel houses an historic pipe organ built by Hilborne L. Roosevelt, in 1885 (Opus 239). It was restored by Richard Howell (1985) and the Reservoir was releathered by David Storey (2008). This Roosevelt pipe organ was played in recital during the Organ Historical Society Convention in July 2024. [4]
Lovely Lane Chapel
[edit | edit source]
The congregation is known as the "Mother Church of American Methodism."[5] The original Lovely Lane Chapel or Meeting House was the scene of the December 1784 "Christmas Conference", at which the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States was founded and Francis Asbury and Thomas Coke were ordained as its first bishops.
The plain original chapel on Lovely Lane, off German (now Redwood) Street, between South Calvert Street and South Street in the city's waterfront district, was abandoned in 1786 and demolished. It was replaced (first) by an elaborate beaux-arts structure of the Merchants Club, and now the building contains a restaurant as well as offices and teaching space used by Chesapeake Shakespeare Company.
Gallery
[edit | edit source]-
Exterior in 2012
-
Interior of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, now Lovely Lane United Methodist Church on St. Paul Street.
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ The Pipe Organs of Baltimore July 21-25, 2024 OHS 67th Annual Convention. (Villanova: Organ Historical Society, 2024), pg. 52
- ^ The Pipe Organs of Baltimore July 21-25, 2024 OHS 67th Annual Convention. (Villanova: Organ Historical Society, 2024), pg. 52
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
External links
[edit | edit source]
- Lovely Lane Methodist Church, Baltimore City, including photo from 2004, at Maryland Historical Trust
- Lovely Lane United Methodist Church website
- Lovely Lane United Methodist Church – Explore Baltimore Heritage
Lua error in Module:Authority_control at line 153: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Churches in Baltimore
- United Methodist churches in Maryland
- Properties of religious function on the National Register of Historic Places in Baltimore
- Churches completed in 1884
- 19th-century Methodist church buildings in the United States
- Northern Baltimore
- Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
- Methodist Episcopal churches in the United States
- Baltimore City Landmarks
- McKim, Mead & White church buildings
- Baltimore Registered Historic Place stubs
- Southern United States Methodist church stubs
- Maryland church stubs