The First United Methodist Church in
Prestonburg, Kentucky is a historic church.
It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
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 small 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 censu ...
.
It was built in 1917 in a Late
Gothic Revival style
Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...
. 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
running bond
Brickwork is masonry produced by a bricklayer, using bricks and mortar. Typically, rows of bricks called ''courses'' are laid on top of one another to build up a structure such as a brick wall.
Bricks may be differentiated from blocks by siz ...
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See also
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References
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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
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