Methodist Episcopal Church

Flagstaff's Methodists organized in 1883, the town barely a year old, and raised their first church soon after. In 1906 they built this Gothic sanctuary of locally quarried red sandstone, its interior laid out in the Akron plan then popular for Protestant worship, with curved pews sloping toward a corner pulpit. A decade later the Methodists and Presbyterians merged into the Flagstaff Federated Community Church, a practical union in a small mountain town. Listed on the National Register, the sandstone church still anchors a corner of the early townsite the congregation helped settle.

What the plaque says

Methodist Episcopal Church. , Flagstaff's first congregation was formed by the Methodists in 1883 and they raised the first church five blocks east of here in 1887. In 1906 they moved here and constructed this Gothic style building of locally quarried red sandstone. The interior, originally in the Akron architectural style, featured semi-circular seating sloping down toward the elevated pulpit in the northwest corner. Services began the next year. In 1916 the Methodist and Presbyterians joined to become the Flagstaff Federated Community Church., Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Flagstaff — steps away
  The ponderosa town where they found Pluto and saved the dark
• San Francisco Peaks — 10 mi
  The sacred mountain of the west — 12,633 feet, and a live argument
• Walnut Canyon National Monument — 11 mi
  Sinagua cliff dwellings in the limestone — the Hisatsinom
• Sunset Crater Volcano — 14 mi
  The volcano northern Arizona watched erupt, around 1085

More markers nearby

• The Milligan House — steps away
• Walkway of Flags — steps away
• Flagstaff — 0.2 mi
• Logging Wheels — 0.2 mi