UPDATED: 2-21-2007
PARKERSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA:   A VINTAGE PORTRAIT

CHURCHES



 
Church of the Good Shepherd at the corner of Charles & William Streets, 1907.
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Trinity Episcopal Church on Juliana Street, near Fifth, in 1907.   St. Paul's Methodist Church at Eleventh & Market, 1907.



St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church in the 2500 block of Dudley Avenue.


Bethany Methodist Church at the corner of Lynn & Wood Streets, in 1907.


St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church at Ninth & Avery, in 1907. It was destroyed by the 1909 Quincy Street Tank Disaster, but a wall still stands as part of a later building.



First Lutheran Church at 1701 Nineteenth Street around 1939. The city's original Lutheran church was founded in 1893 as St. John's Lutheran on Avery, near Ninth, but it was destroyed by the Quincy Hill Water Tank Disaster in 1909. This building was dedicated in 1927.


 
First United Brethren Church on the corner of Sixteenth Street and St. Mary's Avenue, in 1907. This church has been changed considerably.   First United Brethren Church in 1918.


 
Calvary Baptist Church at Thirteenth & Avery Streets, in 1907.   St. Mary's Avenue Christian Church at the corner of Fourteenth St. & St. Mary's Avenue, in 1907. The building was later converted into apartments. It was torn down in the early 1990s.


Looking north toward Elberon Methodist Church at Nineteenth & St. Mary's Avenue in 1907. It was later changed to St. Andrew's Methodist.



Looking north up St. Mary's Avenue at St. Andrew's
Methodist Church, at the corner of 19th Street.





The First Presbyterian Church at
Tenth and Market around 1920.
For earlier photos of this church,
see UPPER MARKET STREET.
 



 

Built in 1870, St. Francis Xavier
Catholic Church on Market Street is
Parkersburg's oldest active church
building. Other photos are available on
MARKET ST. BETWEEN 5TH & 6TH.





The interior of St. Francis Xavier in 1907.





Looking west toward the Henry Logan Methodist Church on the southwest
corner of Ann Street and Sixth, sometime in the 1950s. It was a black
church, founded in 1866. This building was built in 1891.



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