Stop 40 — First United Methodist Church

Address: 501 North Tryon Street Year built: 1928 Style: Late Gothic Revival Architect: Edwin Brewer Phillips

The First United Methodist Church at 501 North Tryon is a 1928 Late Gothic Revival church. Per Friends of Fourth Ward, the architect was Edwin Brewer Phillips, and the Indiana Limestone Company of Bedford, Indiana quarried and produced the limestone for the building.

The Indiana Limestone detail is worth noting: the stone used for most major Gothic Revival churches built in the American South in the first third of the 20th century came from the same Bedford, Indiana quarries, which gives First United Methodist an architectural and material lineage to a much broader national church-building program of the 1920s.

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Source: Friends of Fourth Ward, Self-Walking Tour (2016). Retrieved April 24, 2026.