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.
