The First United Methodist Church in Prestonburg, Kentucky is a historic church. It was listed on the

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as Methodist Episcopal Church, South in 1989. It is a historic Methodist church building on S. Arnold Avenue between Ford Street and W. Graham Street in

Prestonsburg, Kentucky Prestonsburg is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Floyd County, Kentucky, United States. It is in the eastern part of the state in the valley of the Big Sandy River. The population was 3,255 at the time of the 2010 census, d ...

. It was built in 1917 in a Late

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. It is a brick building with yellow sandstone trim on a raised concrete block foundation. The brick is glazed with a yellow-orange mottled finish and is laid in

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*, First United Methodist Church Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Kentucky Gothic Revival church buildings in Kentucky Churches completed in 1917 20th-century Methodist church buildings United Methodist churches in Kentucky National Register of Historic Places in Floyd County, Kentucky 1917 establishments in Kentucky Prestonsburg, Kentucky {{Kentucky-Methodist-church-stub

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