First Methodist Church IV
Life Span: 1873-1921
Location: SE Corner Clark and Washington streets
Architect: Edward Burling and Dankmar Adler
- Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1874
First Church.—Cor. Clark and Washington, Methodist Church Blk.
Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1880
Methodist Church Blk.—Clark se. cor. Washington.
Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1885
Methodist Church Blk.—Clark se. cor. Washington.
Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1904
Methodist Church Blk.—107 Clark se. cor. Washington.
Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1911
Methodist Church Blk.—35 N. Clark se. cor. Washington.
Inter Ocean, May 11, 1872
FIRST METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH BLOCK.
The same firm (Messrs. Burling, Adler & Co.) have completed plans for the First Methodist church block at the corner of Washington and Clark streets. It will be four stories in height, with a basement; will be built of Cleveland sandstone and thoroughly fire proof, containing fire-proof vaults. The building will contain church and Sunday-school rooms of the same dimensions as before the fire, but will be more elaborate in every particular. It will also contain banks, offices and stores, as before. The cost will be $100,000.
- First Methodist Church IV
Clark and Washington Streets
About 1900
- First Methodist Church
Robinson’s Fire Map
1886
Rand McNally’s Bird’s Eye Views of Chicago, 1893
⑩ The Methodist Church Block
At the southeast corner of Clark and Washington streets, is the last remaining ecclesiastical reminder of these corners, for 3 churches with steeples once stood in a row on the sites of the Chamber of Commerce, the Chicago Opera House, and this block. The congregation still owns this property, and in the large auditorium of the building holds regular religious services. The building is in the stone-front style of 1872, 130 feet on Clark, 80 feet on Washington, 55 feet high; 4 stories and basement, with 7 stores, 16 offices, and a hall, with stage, gallery, organ, etc., seating 1,000 people.
Edward Burling and Dankmar Adler designed this building in 1873, before Adler formed his partnership with Louis Sullivan. Once again, the two first floors generated rental income from stores and offices, while the church was on the third and fourth floors.
- First Methodist Church
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map
1906
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