Methodist Episcopal Church Fragment

Object/Artifact

Porter County Museum

Name/Title

Methodist Episcopal Church Fragment

Entry/Object ID

2017.253.13

Description

Pine block with newspaper clippings adhered to its sides.

Context

This small wooden block was salvaged from the 1968 demolition of Valparaiso’s Methodist Episcopal Church at the corner of Franklin and Jefferson streets. Newspaper clippings adhered to the sides of the block document the destruction.

Acquisition

Accession

2017.253

Source or Donor

Found in Collection

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Location

Text of newspaper clipping on side of block

Transcription

An Era Ends - And the walls came tumbling down...that's the theme here as historic First Methodist Church in Valpa- raiso surrenders to wreckers. The church at Franklin and Jefferson was built in 1888. It will be replaced by a new structure at the same location. (Post-Tribune photo.)

Location

Text of newspaper clipping on side of block

Transcription

There was many a moist eye in Valparaiso last week as the First Methodist Church yielded to the demolition crew and became only a memory. There is a peculiar beauty about an old church that has nothing to do with the brick and mortar that holds together the structure - it is, perhaps, a beauty of holiness. Each passing person has a different memory picture - an Easter Sunday, a christening or a wedding. Soon a new church will rise and new memory pictures will be formed.

Exhibition

Against the Grain