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First United Methodist Church (Cheyenne, Wyoming)

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As originally built the church measured approximately 91 feet in length by 55 feet and held 750 worshipers. In 1928, an addition to the rear extended the length to 126 feet. The width was extended to the east in 1950 to a total width of 60.4 feet. Twenty-seven stained glass windows were added around
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Architect J. P. Julien designed the new church which was built by Moses Patrick Keefe for $ 25,000. Furnishings cost an additional $ 5,000. The two-story semi-Gothic church is constructed of Wyoming red sandstone with a steeply-pitched roof and a three-story tower with a pyramidal roof and four
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Two years later the Society bought two lots at 18th and Central Avenues from the Union Pacific for $ 1.00 and lumber for a white frame church was ordered from Chicago. The church was dedicated by Bishop Ames on September 23, 1871. In 1874 Black members withdrew from the congregation and built an
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railroad tracks reached the new town. The Methodist Society was soon formed with nine members and a local physician, Dr. D. W. Scott, acted as the first minister. The Reverend A. Gather arrived in 1868.
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While the new church was being built on the original lots, the old frame church was moved into the middle of Central Avenue with services being held in the building for the next two-and-one-half years.
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The Reverend W. W. Baldwin, a circuit rider from Colorado, led the first Methodist church services in Cheyenne on September 29, 1867 in City Hall. Three months later the
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Construction on the current church, made out of red sandstone, began in 1890 and the church was dedicated on Easter Sunday, 1894. It had 55 members at the time.
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and Agnes Thatcher Lake, a 50-year-old circus proprietor at a nearby residence. Five months later Wild Bill was shot dead in
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The congregation was founded in 1867. The church building at 18th and Central was constructed in 1890 and added to the
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church building at the northeast corner of 18th Street and Central Avenue in
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On March 5, 1876, the Methodist minister Reverend Warren married
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African Methodist Episcopal Church four blocks west.
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First United Methodist Church (Cheyenne, Wyoming) is located in Wyoming
First United Methodist Church (Cheyenne, Wyoming) is located in the United States
Cheyenne, Wyoming
41°8′7″N 104°48′53″W / 41.13528°N 104.81472°W / 41.13528; -104.81472
75001902
Methodist
Cheyenne, Wyoming
United States
National Register of Historic Places
Union Pacific
Wild Bill Hickok
Deadwood, South Dakota

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