CHURCHES

Church of the Good Shepherd at the corner of Charles & William Streets, 1907. CLICK LEFT PHOTO TO SEE POSTCARD VERSION

Trinity Episcopal Church at 430 Juliana Street, near Fifth (seen here in 1907), was built in 1878-79 upon the site of an earlier Trinity Episcopal church building.		St. Paul's Methodist Church at Eleventh & Market, 1907.

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

The First Methodist Church was built at the corner of Tenth and Juliana from 1909 to 1910 and opened the following year, replacing the Methodist Church at Fifth and Juliana. For more photos see the JULIANA ST. page. (Photo and handbill courtesy of Kasey Snyder)

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 in 1907 toward Elberon Methodist Church at Nineteenth & St. Mary's Avenue. Built in 1893, it was moved in 1908 to Liberty Street and became the Stephenson Memorial Church.		St. Andrew's Methodist Church was built in 1908 to replace the old Elberon Methodist Church.

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.

The First Baptist Church on the southwest corner of Ninth and Market was built between 1871 and 1879. Its earlier location was the southwest corner of Sixth and Ann, where another church, Logan Memorial United Methodist, now stands.

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.

The Life Gospel Tabernacle, seen here in 1944, was located on Division Street in
South Parkersburg. (The building is still standing.) Reverend Edmond Life was
the pastor throughout most of the 1940s. He later toured around the eastern
U.S. as an evangelist before settling in Meigs County, Ohio.
(Courtesy of David Zumbach)

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