Asbury United Methodist Church (Chattanooga, Tennessee)
Highland Park Methodist Episcopal Church | |
Location | 1900 Bailey Ave. Chattanooga, Tennessee |
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Coordinates | 35°2′1″N 85°16′32″W / 35.03361°N 85.27556°WCoordinates: 35°2′1″N 85°16′32″W / 35.03361°N 85.27556°W |
Area | 1 acre (0.40 ha) |
Built | 1909 |
Architect | Reuben Harrison Hunt |
MPS | Hunt, Reuben H., Buildings in Hamilton County TR |
NRHP reference No. | 80003813[1] |
Added to NRHP | February 29, 1980 |
Asbury United Methodist Church, originally Highland Park Methodist Episcopal Church, is a historic church on Bailey Avenue in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
The congregation was organized in 1889 as the Highland Park Methodist Episcopal Church. The congregation soon moved into a new frame church that it used for about 20 years before completing the current building.[2] The current church building is a brick structure in a Gothic design created by architect Reuben Harrison Hunt.[2][3] It was completed in 1909, dedicated in 1911,[2] and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1]
Highland Park Methodist Episcopal Church changed its name to Asbury Methodist Church in 1938, when the Methodist Episcopal Church and Methodist Episcopal Church, South, merged.[2] It later added "United" to its name when the United Methodist Church was formed. Another local congregation with a similar name, , became St. Andrew's Methodist Church and later St. Andrew's United Methodist Church.[2] Asbury United Methodist Church closed on July 1, 1984. Its congregation merged with Brainerd United Methodist Church and the church property was sold to , which renamed the former Asbury Methodist building as the "Asbury Chapel".[2][4] St. Andrew's closed in 2004.[5] When Highland Park Baptist Church relocated to Harrison, Tennessee, in 2013, it sold Asbury Chapel and six other buildings in the Highland Park neighborhood to Redemption Point Church,[6] a Church of God congregation based in Ooltewah.[7]
References[]
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ a b c d e f "Asbury United Methodist Church". Regional Organs Database. American Guild of Organists, Chattanooga Chapter.
- ^ Hunt, Reuben H., Buildings in Hamilton County TR
- ^ "Highland Park Baptist". Southeast Tennessee Tourism Association. Archived from the original on August 21, 2008. Retrieved February 20, 2014.
- ^ "St. Andrews Center getting Chattanooga building". Chattanooga Times Free Press. January 18, 2011.
- ^ Robinson, Ruth (June 12, 2013). "Former Highland Park Baptist Church Sells 2 More Of Its Properties". The Chattanoogan.
- ^ "Church of God Congregation to Purchase Tennessee Temple Campus". FaithNews.cc. February 17, 2014.
- 1889 establishments in Tennessee
- 1984 disestablishments in Tennessee
- United Methodist churches in Tennessee
- Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee
- Churches completed in 1909
- 20th-century Methodist church buildings in the United States
- Churches in Chattanooga, Tennessee
- Southern Methodist churches in the United States
- National Register of Historic Places in Chattanooga, Tennessee