Grace Methodist Church

Grace Methodist Church is a Michigan historical marker in Houghton, Houghton County, dedicated 2006.

210 Isle Royale Street, Houghton

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Methodism had considerable success in Cornwall, an important mining area in southwest England. Cornish miners migrating to the Keweenaw Peninsula during the copper boom of the mid-nineteenth century brought their devotion to Methodism with them. They founded Grace Methodist, Houghton’s first church, in 1854. The congregation built a simple frame sanctuary at this location in 1859. In 1893 the current building was erected. The Jacobsville sandstone edifice, designed by local architect William T. Pryor in the Richardsonian Romanesque style, reflected Houghton’s growth and prosperity. Grace Methodist survived a devastating fire in 1916 and is considered the “mother church” of Methodism in the region.

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1852 · Wisconsin (Cowperthwait, 1852) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1855 · Colton's Wisconsin (1855) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1856 · Lake Superior And The Northern Part Of Michigan. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Historical map (Library of Congress)
Harvard University, Harvard Map Collection, G4120_1820_W3 (Harvard Library, Harvard Map Collection)

Lake Superior And The Northern Part Of Michigan, 1856, covering the location of Grace Methodist Church, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Lake Superior And The Northern Part Of Michigan, 1856, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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