PC-000-575

Picture postcard of First Methodist Church, San Diego, later known as First Methodist Episcopal Church

 

circa 1906

 

 

Five picture postcards featuring this church building exist in this collection. It was built in 1906 as the First Methodist Church, housing a congregation founded in 1869, said to be the first protestant church in San Diego County. In subsequent times it was known as the First Methodist Episcopal Church. Since 1964 this congregation has been located in Mission Valley on Camino del Rio South as the First United Methodist Church, San Diego. The Methodist Episcopal Church was one of the three branches of American Methodism that came together to form "The Methodist Church" in 1939, a group that merged with the Evangelical United Brethren Church in 1968 to form the United Methodist Church. In 2013 this building does not exist at its former location at the corner of Ninth Avenue and C Street, San Diego, and the entire block is listed among the "100 Lost Buildings" in San Diego by the Save Our Heritage Organisation. The undivided back of this card (messages not allowed on back untili postal regulations changed in 1907) and the date of construction determine the date of this postcard.

First Methodist Church;San Diego; Methodism; Methodist churches; Christian churches; Churches; Methodist churches;

883 C Street

California - San Diego

 

 

MS-0008

English

 

Postcard

3.5 inches x 5.5 inches

No

PC-000-574, PC-000-577A and B; PC-000-580, PC-000-581A and B

First Methodist Church, San Diego, Cal., Corner Ninth and C Streets

 

Image

TIFF

18.95 MB