Howell Area Archives Digital Archive

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  • HCDL-ngp-S004-05-0007_u.jpg

    This is a photograph is looking from the First National Bank Building, South Michigan Avenue, Howell Michigan towards the Walnut Street  Methodist Church.  The church was on the southeast corner of South Walnut Street and East Sibley Street.

    The date of the photograph is unknown.
  • HCDL-ngp-C003-03-002_u.jpg

    In this collection of photographs the Walnut Street Methodist Church, 205 South Walnut Street, Howell, Michigan, is being torn down.  The South Kent Wrecking Company of Byron Center, Michigan was contracted for the teardown.  The demolition made way for a parking lot.

    The first Methodist Church in Howell also stood on the same site of this church, on the southeast corner of South Walnut Street and East Sibley Street.  The first church was erected between 1851 and 1854 at a cost of $1500.00.  As early as 1835, the church society had been holding services in the Eagle hotel, then the village schoolhouse, and later in the old courthouse. 

    The Walnut Street Methodist Episcopal Church was chartered in 1873, and merged with Emmanuel Assocation January 1, 1969 to become the First United Methodist Church.

    The 1855 building was moved to a site on 200 block of West Grand River Avenue to make way for the next building about 1890.   That building on Grand River Avenue was used for a multitude of community purposes including a gymnasium and a manufacturing place.  It was last occupied by Wickman Wire Works.  (See item 10143, "200 Block of West Grand River").

    The Walnut Street Methodist Episcopal Church was erected in 1890 at a cost of $18,000.  It served the congregation until December 14, 1969, when they moved to a new home, 1230 Bower Street, Howell, Michigan.  The reasons for building a new church were a growing congregation, and aging, outdated infrastructure.    The new building was consecrated on February 8, 1970.  Rev. Allan G. Gray was the last pastor to serve in that building.
  • HCDL-ngp-C003-03-0024_u.jpg

    These photographs are of the interior and exterior the Walnut Street Methodist Church, 201 South Walnut Street, Howell, Michigan, 1952.
  • HCDL-gn-Teeple-N072_u.jpg

    This is a photograph of a gathering of unknown people outside a church believed to be in Livingston County, Michigan.
  • HCDL-gn-Teeple-N065A_u.jpg

    This is a photograph developed from a glass negative of an unknown church believed to be in Livingston County, Michigan.
  • HCDL-gn-Teeple-N015D_u.jpg

    This is a photograph by Fred Teeple, glass plate negative, of a photograph done by Cleave, of the First Presbyterian Church, Sibley Street, Howell Michigan.  The date of this photograph is unknown.
  • HCDL-ngp-C003-08-002_u.jpg

    This is a photograph of a Tabernacle meeting at the Episcopal Church, 114 South Walnut, at the corner of Sibley Street & South Walnut Street, Howell, Michigan.
     
    The tabernacle was a temporary structure built under the direction of Mr. Chubb for a series of Union Revival Services conducted by Evangelist Dr. Bromley. They arrived by train from New Martinsville, West Virginia at the end of February and daily services were conducted. On March 23, 1915, they departed while people sang "When the roll is called up yonder". Attendance at the first services was around 900 with numbers growing with each service. The Tabernacle was taken down after the last services.

    The names of the persons in this photograph are unknown.  The roof of the Episcopal Church is visible.

    View articles about the tabernacle and Dr. Bromley (in library use only).
  • HCDL-ngp-C003-07-0001_u.jpg

    This is a photograph of St. Mary Catholic Church, and Rectory, Pinckney, Michigan.
  • HCDL-ngp-C003-02-0063_u.jpg

    This is a photograph of the new Parochial school, St. Joseph Catholic School, 425 East Washington Street, Howell, Michigan, 1955.
  • St. Joseph Catholic School, Howell, Michigan

    St. Joseph Catholic School
    Unknown date
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