1920 - First United Methodist Church - Glendale AZ
N 33° 32.390 W 112° 11.136
12S E 389922 N 3711764
This double-dated cornerstone pays tribute to the congregation's first building with one date, and celebrates their current building's construction with another date - and that date is wrong . . . by three years!!!
Waymark Code: WMK7WB
Location: Arizona, United States
Date Posted: 02/25/2014
Views: 1
From the church's website, church history page, the following explanation of the wrong date:
"In 1912, the Reverend David Roberts was appointed pastor and the church began to experience a period of rapid growth and greater involvement in the community. Reverend Roberts organized the Boy Scouts in Glendale; Troop 62 is still active today and is the oldest continuously active troop in Arizona. By 1917, the small frame church was deemed too small, and in September 1918, a committee was appointed to solicit funds to build a new church.
Mr. M.L. Fitzhugh drafted the architectural plans for a new building, a grand two-story Gothic edifice, measuring 100 x 70 feet, with a three-story buttressed tower, that would occupy the full ground space at the northwest corner of present-day Glenn and 58th Drives. In the meantime, in March 1920, the small church was sold to the Seventh-Day Adventists and hauled away to their church site by tractor. The congregation met at the Woman’s Club and the grammar and high schools while the new building was being constructed. The church board rejected the bids on the original design saying a cost of $60,000 to $80,000 as too high, but contracted to begin construction of the basement and Sunday school rooms. Because of cotton crop failures and other delays, the original cornerstone was engraved April 6, 1920, but was not laid until May 4, 1923."
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