Location Mobile, Alabama NRHP Reference # 84000690 Opened 1896 Phone +1 251-345-3315 | Built 1896 Address Mobile, AL 36602, USA Architectural style Victorian architecture Added to NRHP 5 January 1984 | |
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St. Francis Street Methodist Church, officially St. Francis Street United Methodist Church, is a historic United Methodist Church building in Mobile, Alabama, United States. The current structure was built in 1896 by the architectural firm of Watkins and Johnson. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 5, 1984.
Holland Nimmons McTyeire (1824-1889) met his wife Amelia Townsend (1827-1891) in this church. He later founded Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee thanks to his wife's cousin, Frank Armstrong Crawford Vanderbilt (1839-1885), who convinced her second husband, Cornelius Vanderbilt, the richest man in the United States at the time, to donate US$1 million for its creation.
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