Fountain Heights Methodist Church

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Fountain Heights Methodist Church was organized as Fountain Heights Methodist Episcopal Church, South on December 7, 1902, by Frank W. Brandon who served as the church’s first pastor. Sixty-four persons joined the church that day. The congregation worshipped at a nearby Baptist church located at 11th Avenue North and 13th Street North while their new church building was constructed. The presiding elder of the Birmingham District, Reverend John Dixon Simpson, appointed the church’s first board of trustees which included J. D. Lanier, J. D. Elliot, T. M. Dyer, W. E. Weir, and Jerome A. Tucker.

The Fountain Heights Land Company donated two lots located at Fountain Avenue (12th Avenue North) and Lawn Street (13th Street North) as well as $100 in cash toward the construction of the new church. The building was to be constructed of brick, brownstone, and terra cotta for $12,000. A building committee was appointed to supervise its construction which consisted of George C. Kelley, hardware dealer as chairman; Jerome A. Tucker, attorney as secretary; and B. F. Barbour, plumber as treasurer, along with J. C. Lanier, and W. E. Weir. Construction began on January 1, 1903. The cornerstone was laid on October 12, 1903. William Ernest Spink was the architect.

Before the building's sale in the early 1960s, the cornerstone and window of Christ knocking at the door were removed and moved the foyer of the Good Shepherd Chapel at Fair Haven, a Methodist retirement home opened in 1961.

The building, having been sold and then abandoned, was demolished in 2021.

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