Property Record
21 S MADISON ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Methodist-Episcopal Church |
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| Other Name: | UNITED METHODIST CHURCH |
| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 61155 |
| Location (Address): | 21 S MADISON ST |
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| County: | Rock |
| City: | Evansville |
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| Year Built: | 1867 |
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| Additions: | 1890 1955 |
| Survey Date: | 2006 |
| Historic Use: | church |
| Architectural Style: | Early Gothic Revival |
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| Wall Material: | Cream Brick |
| Architect: | JAMES WEST (1890) |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Evansville Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 11/16/1978 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 1/1/1989 |
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| Additional Information: | "Early sketches of this church in the 1860s show a central tower with a steeple not unlike that of the Free Will Baptist Church before it was remodeled. The 1890 alterations to the Methodist - Episcopal Church resulted in two ornate steepled towers of different heights. (The tower to the north was once topped with an onion dome.) The towers combined with the cream brick walls and pointed arch windows give the church its Gothic appearance. The initials "WCTU," for Women's Christian Temperance Union, appear in the stained glass window above the front entrance. The Temperance Movement was very successful in Evansville: the sale of intoxicants was never legalized here until after the end of national Prohibition. This church is now the United Methodist Church." Evansville Historic Preservation Commission, Historic Evansville Walking Tour brochure, 2014. |
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| Bibliographic References: | EVANSVILLE REVIEW 1/10/1996. Historical and Architectural Walking Tour of Evansville's Historic District, Evansville Historic Preservation Commission, 1992. Evansville Citizen 4/27/2000. MONTGOMERY, RUTH ANN. EVANSVILLE REVIEW: AUGUST 20,1997; AUGUST 27, 1997; SEPTEMBER 3, 1997; SEPTEMBER 10, 1997, SEPTEMBER 17, 1997. MONTGOMERY, RUTH ANN. GLIMPSES OF THE GROVE. EVANSVILLE: 1989, PP. 35, 99. ADDRESS FILES. LEONARD P. EAGER LOCAL HISTORY ROOM, EAGER FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY. Evansville Historic Preservation Commission, Historic Evansville Walking Tour brochure, 2014. Evansville Historic Preservation Commission, Historic Evansville: A Walker's Guide, 2002. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |