Estill Methodist Church

Front: Members of distant Lebanon Methodist Church held regular prayer meetings in Janie Boyd Rhodes’s Estill home from 1902 until this church was built in 1908. Dr. W.M. O’Neal and his daughter Laura O’Neal Johnston donated the land here for a new church. Janie Rhodes’s husband Julian, though a Baptist, milled the lumber at his sawmill, was appointed to the building committee, and became a charter member. Reverse: This Carpenter Gothic church was built in 1908 with Rev, W.W. Williams as its pastor and dedicated a few years during the pastorate of Rev. J.R. Copeland. In 1938 the entrance in the north tower was replaced by a window like the one in the south tower and the Gothic arched window between the towers was replaced by a central entrance. The church still retains its essentially Carpenter Gothic style.