Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church and Asbury House
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Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church and Asbury House is a historic United Methodist church
located at Baltimore
, Maryland
, United States
. It is a Norman-Gothic
style church that was completed in 1872. It was designed by Thomas Dixon
, a Baltimore architect and is built of blocks of a unique metabasalt, a green-toned Maryland fieldstone
, with brownstone
ornamentation. It features three spires.
Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church and Asbury House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
in 1971.
Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church should not be confused with another church of the same name in Washington, DC, which served as the national representative congregation for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
from 1850 to 1939.
United Methodist Church
The United Methodist Church is a Methodist Christian denomination which is both mainline Protestant and evangelical. Founded in 1968 by the union of The Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church, the UMC traces its roots back to the revival movement of John and Charles Wesley...
located at Baltimore
Baltimore
Baltimore is the largest independent city in the United States and the largest city and cultural center of the US state of Maryland. The city is located in central Maryland along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore is sometimes referred to as Baltimore...
, Maryland
Maryland
Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east...
, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. It is a Norman-Gothic
Gothic Revival architecture
The Gothic Revival is an architectural movement that began in the 1740s in England...
style church that was completed in 1872. It was designed by Thomas Dixon
Thomas Dixon (architect)
Thomas Dixon , was a Presbyterian architect born in Wilmington, Delaware and one of the founders of the Baltimore chapter of AIA. He was the father of minister Thomas Freeman Dixon, an 1893 graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary. In 1871 he partnered with Charles L...
, a Baltimore architect and is built of blocks of a unique metabasalt, a green-toned Maryland fieldstone
Fieldstone
Fieldstone is a building construction material. Strictly speaking, it is stone collected from the surface of fields where it occurs naturally...
, with brownstone
Brownstone
Brownstone is a brown Triassic or Jurassic sandstone which was once a popular building material. The term is also used in the United States to refer to a terraced house clad in this material.-Types:-Apostle Island brownstone:...
ornamentation. It features three spires.
Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church and Asbury House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
in 1971.
Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church should not be confused with another church of the same name in Washington, DC, which served as the national representative congregation for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, or Methodist Episcopal Church South, was the so-called "Southern Methodist Church" resulting from the split over the issue of slavery in the Methodist Episcopal Church which had been brewing over several years until it came out into the open at a conference...
from 1850 to 1939.
External links
- Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church and Asbury House, Baltimore City, including undated photo, at Maryland Historical Trust
- Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church website